Robert Mossman, Endurance and the Weddell Sea ice

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Burton, Robert, King, John C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Shackleton; Weddell; Argentine; Orcadas; Mossman; Orcadas Station; Antarc*; Polar Record; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511035/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511035/1/Burton_King_Mossman_as_published.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247415000285

Before Shackleton arrived at South Georgia aboard Endurance on 5 November 1914 he was aware that the vessel might meet bad pack-ice in the Weddell Sea. This had been forecast on the basis of climate analysis by Robert Mossman, the meteorologist on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902–190...