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Ella Al-Shamahi (born Aalaa Al-Shamahi, Arabic: آلاء الشماحي) (born 1983 or 1984) is a British explorer, paleoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist, writer and stand-up comic. [5] [6] [7] She specialises in the study of Neanderthals. She was also the presenter and producer of BBC2's Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors.
The first attempt to find a route to the South Pole was made by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott on the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904. Scott, accompanied by Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson, set out with the aim of traveling as far south as possible, and on 31 December 1902, reached 82°16 ′ S. [27]
The expedition ship RRS Discovery in the Antarctic alongside the Great Ice Barrier, now known as the Ross Ice Shelf. The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–1843).
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Part of the planning for the expedition had provided for a relief ship to follow a year later, in case Discovery was lost in the Antarctic; on reading a newspaper article about this some months later, Evans saw an opportunity for adventure and wrote to Sir Clements Markham, the organising force behind the expedition. He met Markham twice in the ...
It was erected in 1911 by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1913 (also known as the Terra Nova Expedition) led by Robert Falcon Scott. In selecting a base of operations for the 1910–1913 Expedition, Scott rejected the notion of reoccupying the hut he had built by McMurdo Sound during the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904.
Another significant find of the expedition was the discovery of a "living fossil", the monoplacophoran Neopilina galathea, dredged from the bottom of the Mexican Gulf. [ 3 ] Already in the 1930s, American scientist began to use seismic measuring methods in flat waters and during the war, physicist Maurice Ewing carried the first seismic ...
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