Profile: Albert Borlase Armitage

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Walton, David W.H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1985
• Subjects: History of Science; Arctic; Antarctic; Debenham; Armitage; Harmsworth; Antarc*; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523509/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400005969

Albert Armitage was the second in command of both the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition of 1884–1897 and R. F. Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–1904. He never led an expedition himself; as Frank Debenham wrote (1944), ‘For polar work his mind was perhaps not quite flexible enough...