Chapter 3: General

• Published in: Polar Record
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1996
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Ross Sea; Shackleton; South Pole; Graham Land; Penola; Polar Record; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740002787x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740002787X

As we sailed south in Penola , our tiny vessel, in the British Graham Land Expedition 1934–1937, to us being young, the exploits of Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton in the Ross Sea and at the Pole, seemed an age ago, although in reality just a little more than a score of years. And to a young man a score of years is an era. In contemplation one now realizes all of us had been born only just a little before the South Pole was reached first by Amundsen, in December 1911.