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Original flag flown by the 'Discovery', stored at the Royal Museums Greenwich.. In 1929, members of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition on RRS Discovery used white cotton sheeting to improvise a courtesy ensign (a flag used as a token of respect by vessels while in foreign waters) for a continent without a flag of its own.
According to the flag's promoters, it signifies: "Horizontal stripes of navy and white represent the long days and nights at Antarctica's extreme latitude. In the center, a lone white peak erupts from a field of snow and ice, echoing those of the bergs, mountains, and pressure ridges that define the Antarctic horizon.
Mirny Station, Antarctica 1823 Shipwreck: 7 Jenny [10] Drake Passage, Southern Ocean Most likely a legend 1958 Aircraft: 7 Cape Hallett Bay plane crash [11] Cape Hallett Bay, Antarctica 6 survivors 1966 Aircraft: 6 Ross Ice Shelf plane crash [12] Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica 1986 Aircraft: 6 Philippi Glacier plane crash [13] Philippi Glacier ...
Members of Antarctic expeditions who have met their deaths while in the service of such expeditions, or as an immediate consequence thereof. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Explorers of Antarctica .
Died on 3 October 1918 while on active service with the Australian Field Artillery in France. [22] Harold Hamilton: 26 Biologist Visited Antarctica during the final cruise of the Aurora, 1913–14. [7] Charles Sandell: 25 Wireless operator and mechanic Visited Antarctica during the final cruise of the Aurora, 1913–14. [14] Arthur Sawyer: 26
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He died heavily in debt, [190] his small estate consisting of personal effects to the value of £556 (equivalent to £38,349 in 2023). [65] [191] Lady Shackleton died in 1936, having survived her husband by fourteen years. [192] On 27 November 2011, the ashes of Frank Wild were interred on the right-hand side of Shackleton's gravesite in Grytviken.