Aurora and the Otago Museum: the boundary between Antarctic science and seamanship

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: White, Moira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2017
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Ross Sea; McMurdo Sound; Weddell; Chalmers; Antarc*; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247416000851; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247416000851

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...