- MS 1591/1/11/2;D Telegram to Alexander Hepburne Macklin, Winnipeg 12 May 1921 [Informs that he has cabled Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and that he would expect that expedition is definitely off this year] holograph
Bassett, correspondence
This material is held atScott Polar Research Institute Archives, University of Cambridge
- Reference
- GB 15 John Bassett / Correspondence
- Dates of Creation
- 1921
- Name of Creator
- Physical Description
- Telegram
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922 (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton) was to sail along previously unvisited stretches of the Antarctic continent. Quest arrived in South Georgia in January 1922 where Shackleton died on 5 January. The expedition continued under John Robert Francis [Frank] Wild's command visiting the South Shetland Islands, Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha. The expedition proved the non-existence of New South Greenland. Shackleton was buried in the whalers' graveyard at Grytviken, South Georgia.
Arrangement
Chronological