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Shackleton's Endurance Shackleton’s Endurance tells of Shackleton & explores expeditions, both Arctic & Antarctic.

The exhibition brings to life the epic story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition — it’s astonishing panoramas, doomed ship, extreme hardships, and miraculous climax. Haunting expedition photographs, diary entries, and vintage film footage resurrect one of the most awesome man-against-nature sagas to emerge this century. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition w

as originally organized by the American Museum of Natural History in 1999 and has toured America and Europe since then. It is now coming to Dun Laoghaire for a period of two years with the expectation that it will continue to exhibit on a semi-permanent basis long into the future.

1907: UNPATRIOTIC HANGAR COLLAPSEWalter Wellman’s airship hangar on Danes Island collapsed on 4 July, 1907, in a gale. W...
04/07/2025

1907: UNPATRIOTIC HANGAR COLLAPSE
Walter Wellman’s airship hangar on Danes Island collapsed on 4 July, 1907, in a gale. Wellman had ordered the building rushed the previous year by reducing the number of supporting arches from nine to five.

Image from: Kersting, R. The White World, Life and Adventures within the Arctic circle Portrayed by Famous Living Explorers. New York, 1902.

P. J. Capelotti, By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration (New Brunswick, 1999), pp. 73, 77.

1923: CARR PROMOTEDFlying officer Charles Roderick Carr, DFC, was promoted to Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force o...
03/07/2025

1923: CARR PROMOTED
Flying officer Charles Roderick Carr, DFC, was promoted to Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force on 3 July, 1923.

Carr, 1920, LIMIS Lithuania

The London Gazette, 3 July, 1923.

1855: MOORE APPOINTED Captain Thomas Edward Laws Moore, RN, was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over th...
02/07/2025

1855: MOORE APPOINTED
Captain Thomas Edward Laws Moore, RN, was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Falkland Islands and their dependencies on 2 July, 1855.

Moore was mate aboard HMS Terror during J. C. Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839-1842. Turning to the Arctic, he commanded HMS Plover for five years from 1847 searching for the lost Franklin expedition.

Stephen Pearce’s 1860 portrait of Moore: NPG London

The London Gazette, 3 July, 1855.
https://www.falklandsbiographies.org/biographies/moore_thomas

1864: BIRTH OF ARMITAGEA. B. Armitage was born in Balquhidder, near Loch Lubnaig, Perthshire, 2 July, 1864. Armitage was...
02/07/2025

1864: BIRTH OF ARMITAGE
A. B. Armitage was born in Balquhidder, near Loch Lubnaig, Perthshire, 2 July, 1864. Armitage was second-in-command of the Jackson–Harmsworth Franz Josef Land expedition. 1894-97 & then navigator & second-in-command of Scott’s Antarctic expedition 1901-04.

Image: Dundee Heritage Trust (from a scrapbook compiled by C. R. Markham)

D. W. H. Walton, ‘Profile: Albert Borlase Armitage’, Polar Record, Vol. 22 No. 140 (1985), pp. 511-518.

2022: DEATH OF SIROHIProfessor Girraj Singh Sirohi, Indian plant physiologist, died on 1 July, 2022. Sirohi conducted re...
01/07/2025

2022: DEATH OF SIROHI
Professor Girraj Singh Sirohi, Indian plant physiologist, died on 1 July, 2022. Sirohi conducted research at the South Pole for four months in 1960-1961 funded by the United States National Science Foundation. Sirohi Point, a rock point of Alice Glacier where it enters Beardmore Glacier, is named in his honour.

Portrait from Plant Physiology Reports cited below
‘Sirohi Point’, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Gazetter: https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=131659.

G. C. Srivastava & M. C. Ghildiyal, ‘Obituary’, Plant Physiology Reports, Vol. 28 (2023), pp. 627–628: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40502-023-00768-y -info.

Dr. Giri Raj Singh Sirohi: http://amitasirohi.com.

1935: PROMOTION FOR CARRSquadron Leader Charles Roderick Carr, DFC, AFC, was promoted to Wing Commander in the Royal Air...
01/07/2025

1935: PROMOTION FOR CARR
Squadron Leader Charles Roderick Carr, DFC, AFC, was promoted to Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force on 1 July, 1935.

Image: Carr, NPG

The London Gazette, 2 July, 1935.

1907: PROMOTION FOR SKELTONEngineer Lieutenant Reginald William Skelton, RN, was promoted to Engineer Commander on 1 Jul...
01/07/2025

1907: PROMOTION FOR SKELTON
Engineer Lieutenant Reginald William Skelton, RN, was promoted to Engineer Commander on 1 July, 1907. Skelton was Chief Engineer and photographer of Scott’s Antarctic expedition of 1901-1904.

Skelton skinning penguins on Discovery, Dundee Heritage Trust

The London Gazette, 12 July, 1907.

30/06/2025

Can't get enough of Whale of a Weekend? Neither can we! 🐋

Here you can listen to BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth episode all about whales and whaling, featuring South Georgia Museum Curator Jayne Pierce as a studio guest and pieces with Helen Balfour (South Georgia Museum Assistant Curator) and former whaler Gibbie Fraser: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f013

Dan Snow was interviewed this morning on BBC Radio Good Morning Scotland at 1 hour 55 which you can listen to here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002dw9p

📷 Brian Anderson/SGHT

1909: PROMOTION FOR ROYDSLieutenant Charles William Rawson Royds was promoted to Commander of the Royal Navy on 30 June,...
30/06/2025

1909: PROMOTION FOR ROYDS
Lieutenant Charles William Rawson Royds was promoted to Commander of the Royal Navy on 30 June, 1909.

Royds in 1900: Christie's

The London Gazette, 22 June, 1909.

1926: PRIESTLEY RANKCaptain Raymond Edward Priestley, MC, Cambridge University Contingent (Signal Unit), Senior Division...
30/06/2025

1926: PRIESTLEY RANK
Captain Raymond Edward Priestley, MC, Cambridge University Contingent (Signal Unit), Senior Division, resigned his commission that he had held since on 21 June, 1922, and was granted the rank of Major on 30 June, 1926.

Portrait of Priestley: Tewkesbury Museum

The London Gazette, 20 June, 1922; 29 June, 1926.

1903: PROMOTION FOR MULOCK & RENNICKSub-Lieutenant George Francis Arthur Mulock, RN, was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 Ju...
30/06/2025

1903: PROMOTION FOR MULOCK & RENNICK
Sub-Lieutenant George Francis Arthur Mulock, RN, was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 June, 1903. He was Third Officer of SY Morning, relief ship of Scott’s Antarctic expedition 1901-1904 and then took Shackleton’s place in the shore party in March, 1903. Mulock was involved in drafting charts during sledging voyages over the 1903-1904 season.

Henry Edward de Parry Rennick also received the same promotion on that date. Lieutenant Rennick was later First Officer of RYS Terra Nova during Scott’s Antarctic expedition 1911-1913.

Mulock (Discovery Point and RRS Discovery) & Rennick (SPRI)

The London Gazette, 3 July, 1903.

1909: LONDON DINNERWelcome home dinner for Shackleton and his comrades, Princes’ Restaurant, London, 29 June, 1909. Imag...
29/06/2025

1909: LONDON DINNER
Welcome home dinner for Shackleton and his comrades, Princes’ Restaurant, London, 29 June, 1909.

Image: State Library of New South Wales

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Shackleton’s Endurance brings to life the epic story of Sir Ernest H. Shackleton’s 1914-1917 Imperial Transcontinental Antarctic Expedition with ‘Endurance’ & ‘Aurora’.

Posts here also explore the crews, ships and stories of many other expeditions both Arctic & Antarctic from across the centuries.