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Before the Heroes Came - Antarctica in the 1890s (Paperback)
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Before the Heroes Came - Antarctica in the 1890s (Paperback)
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Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been
sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was
not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F.
Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set foot on
the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British
establishment, had stolen a march on several planned competing
expeditions from Germany and Scandinavia. Borchgrevink returned to
Antarctica in 1899 with a party that was the first to winter over
on the continent. Regrettably, bad weather and unscalable mountains
limited their forays inland. Borchgrevink's survival was proof that
with adequate supplies, the Antarctic winter was survivable, and
that with a better geographic position, the enormous unknown of the
continent could be investigated. Borchgrevink galvanized the
British geographical authorities who had come to consider polar
exploration their exclusive province. Led by Sir Clements Markham
of the Royal Geographic Society, the British keenly felt his blow
to their national pride delivered by an explorer they regarded as
an arrogant upstart. The RGS pushed forward with its plans, and a
tragic competition to be the first to reach the South Pole was set
in motion between the British and the Scandinavians. This work is
an account of the first tentative human gropings in Antarctica,
concentrating on the coalescing of official and popular attitudes
that later resulted in the polar races of Robert Falcon Scott and
Roald Amundsen, which dominate the story of the "Heroic Era" of
Antarctic exploration, from 1901 to 1922.
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