Aurora and the Otago Museum: the boundary between Antarctic science and seamanship
ABSTRACT Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition famously did not succeed in traversing the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. It was, nevertheless, an enterprise that engaged the interest of New Zealanders and the rest of the British Empire even as Wo...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247416000851 2024-03-03T08:38:01+00:00 Aurora and the Otago Museum: the boundary between Antarctic science and seamanship White, Moira 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247416000851 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247416000851 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 53, issue 2, page 192-198 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2017 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247416000851 2024-02-08T08:43:51Z ABSTRACT Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition famously did not succeed in traversing the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. It was, nevertheless, an enterprise that engaged the interest of New Zealanders and the rest of the British Empire even as World War I was being fought. When one of the expedition ships, Aurora , broke from her moorings soon after arrival in McMurdo Sound and drifted trapped in pack ice for months, the construction of a temporary jury rudder while still at sea enabled her crew to make their way to Port Chalmers, Dunedin for more extensive repairs in 1916. This paper discusses interactions between the Otago Museum staff and the crew of Aurora while she was in port, the offer of the replaced jury rudder to the museum, and reflects on the concerns and interests that might have contributed to the offer and its rejection. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic McMurdo Sound Polar Record Ross Sea Weddell Sea Cambridge University Press Antarctic The Antarctic Weddell Sea Ross Sea McMurdo Sound Weddell Chalmers ENVELOPE(159.483,159.483,-79.333,-79.333) Polar Record 53 2 192 198 |
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ABSTRACT Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition famously did not succeed in traversing the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. It was, nevertheless, an enterprise that engaged the interest of New Zealanders and the rest of the British Empire even as World War I was being fought. When one of the expedition ships, Aurora , broke from her moorings soon after arrival in McMurdo Sound and drifted trapped in pack ice for months, the construction of a temporary jury rudder while still at sea enabled her crew to make their way to Port Chalmers, Dunedin for more extensive repairs in 1916. This paper discusses interactions between the Otago Museum staff and the crew of Aurora while she was in port, the offer of the replaced jury rudder to the museum, and reflects on the concerns and interests that might have contributed to the offer and its rejection. |
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Aurora and the Otago Museum: the boundary between Antarctic science and seamanship |
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Aurora and the Otago Museum: the boundary between Antarctic science and seamanship |
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aurora and the otago museum: the boundary between antarctic science and seamanship |
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