p. 32ff. Chapter III on Polar Travel is a brief history of polar exploration, citing Frobisher, Hudson, Barents, Spitsbergen Dutch whalers, Franklin, “Parry, McClintock, Kane, Greely, Nansen, Peary, and Koch, while the Antarctic has its own list including the names of Ross, Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen, Mawson, and Nordenskiöld” (p. 36).
The Polar Regions.
Debenham, Frank. London: E. Benn, 1930.
- Arctic Reading: General
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The Quiet Land: The Diaries of Frank Debenham, Member of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913.
Debenham, Frank. Edited by June Debenham Back. Foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs. Bluntisham, U.K., Bluntisham Books/Erskine Press, 1992.
- 1910-14 British National Antarctic Expedition (Scott on Terra Nova).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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On Debenham’s experience of the Scott expedition and its tragic end. It was he who suggested that excess funds in the memorial Appeal be used for an institute of Polar research and he became SPRI’s first Director, an unpaid position which he held from 1920 to 1946.