‘For the sake of science and country’: the Ross Sea party 1914–1917

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Harrowfield, David L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2014
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Ross Sea; McMurdo Sound; Shackleton; New Zealand; Weddell; Saunders; Polar Plateau; Nimrod; Mackintosh; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Record; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000795; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247414000795

ABSTRACT In December 1913 Sir Ernest Shackleton released a prospectus and announced The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. His goal was to undertake the first crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea via the polar plateau to McMurdo Sound on the Ross Sea. The journey had already been attempted...