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    The drift of the Antarctic exploration vessel SY Aurora was an ordeal which lasted 312 days, affecting the Ross Sea party of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial...
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    SY Aurora was a 580-ton barque-rigged steam yacht built by Alexander Stephen and Sons Ltd. in Dundee, Scotland, in 1876, for the Dundee Seal and Whale...
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    Robert Falcon Scott Ross Ice Shelf Ross Island Ross Sea Ross Sea party SY Aurora's drift Scottish National Antarctic Expedition Shackleton–Rowett Expedition...
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    sledding parties marooned on shore, and drifted for over six months before breaking free of the ice. The Aurora's damaged rudder forced her to return to...
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    On 7 May, Aurora, anchored at the party's Cape Evans headquarters, was wrenched from her moorings during a gale and carried with drifting ice far out...
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    A drifting ice station is a temporary or semi-permanent facility built on an ice floe. During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the United States maintained...
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    Antarctic navigator, who commanded the expedition vessel SY Aurora during her 283-day drift in the ice while on service with the Ross Sea Party component...
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  • Expedition as boatswain on SY Aurora. He was aboard ship on 7 May 1915 when Aurora was torn from her Cape Evans moorings, drifting in the pack for nine months...
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  • Ross Sea party perished after their support ship Aurora broke free from its mooring post and drifted away, leaving the shore party stranded. Names and...
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    Evans in McMurdo Sound when the Aurora was blown from its anchorage and driven out to sea, unable to return. After a drift of many months, the ship had returned...
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    on the Arctic and the conquest of the North Pole by means of an extended drift in an icebound ship. He obtained the use of Fridtjof Nansen's polar exploration...
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    Shackleton's proposed march. His problems were compounded when the party's ship, SY Aurora, was swept from its winter moorings during a gale and was unable to return...
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    4,180 kilometres (2,600 mi) of unexplored territory, while its ship, SY Aurora, navigated 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) of unmapped coastline. Scientific...
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    Eielson explored the drift ice north of Alaska, touching down upon it in Eielson's airplane in the first land-plane descent onto drift ice. Soundings taken...
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    ice, and waited for the drift to carry her towards the pole. Impatient with the slow speed and erratic character of the drift, after 18 months Nansen...
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  • "Brothers". Unifrance. "Citadel". Unifrance. "City of Wind". Unifrance. "Drift". Memento International. "First Case". Be For Films. "Phantom Youth". Gaumont...
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    Wilson E. R. Evans Crean Lashly Filchner Australasian Antarctic Expedition SY Aurora Mawson Far Eastern Party Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Endurance...
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    Wilson E. R. Evans Crean Lashly Filchner Australasian Antarctic Expedition SY Aurora Mawson Far Eastern Party Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Endurance...
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    Scotia (barque) (redirect from SY Scotia)
    Scotia". The Times. No. 41071. London. 24 January 1916. col D, p. 5. "45p SY Scotia". Mike Skidmore. Archived from the original on 22 September 2003. Retrieved...
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    are constructed on land or on ice that rests on land, while others are drifting ice stations built on the sea ice of the high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean...
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    Russian manned drifting ice stations have extensively monitored the Arctic Ocean. Scientific settlements were established on the drift ice and carried...
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    ISBN 978-1-57409-312-4. Dodd, David (June 2017). "The final voyage of SY Aurora". Australian Antarctic Magazine (32). Retrieved 2019-09-04. Donaghy, Aaron...
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    video of the dives. The "North Pole-35" (abbreviated as "NP-35") manned drifting ice station was established. On January 10, 2008, three of expedition members...
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    north of Cape Farewell, which is almost inaccessible due to southward drifting ice. The pilot on all three trips was English explorer James Hall. After...
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    backers interested in mining and whaling. The expedition, using the ship SY Aurora commanded by Captain John King Davis, departed from Hobart on 2 December...
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  • tennis player (b. 1927) January 7 Russell Banks, 82, novelist (Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter) (b. 1940) Joseph A. Hardy III, 100...
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    Gunnbjörn Ulfsson was on a voyage from Norway to Iceland and his ship was drifted towards a western coast, probably in the area of today's Cape Farvel on...
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    prevented the expedition ship SY Aurora from landing closer to Cape Adare, the original eastern limit. Only after the Aurora—heading west—had rounded the...
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  • Wilson E. R. Evans Crean Lashly Filchner Australasian Antarctic Expedition SY Aurora Mawson Far Eastern Party Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Endurance...
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    the expedition's 48 dogs, aboard the expedition ship SY Aurora, bound for Hobart. On the Aurora, Mertz met Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, a lieutenant...
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