Profile: Thomas Crean

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Hallock, Judith Lee
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1985
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; McMurdo Sound; New Zealand; Weddell; Polar Plateau; Crean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400006355; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400006355

Abstract Born in Annascaul, Ireland in 1877, Thomas Crean enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1893 and was serving in New Zealand when Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition passed through en route for McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. As an AB in Discovery he gained experience which he later put to good use in two further British expeditions, Scott's British Antarctic ( Terra Nova ) Expedition, in which he sledged to the polar plateau, and Shackleton's Imperial Tran-Antarctic ( Endurance ) Expedition, in which he was given charge of the dog teams, drifted on the pack ice of the Weddell Sea and took part in the epic open-boat journey to South Georgia.