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    The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE), 1902–1904, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student...
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    The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived...
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    took over." For example, the scientific results of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–04 were still being published in 1920 (Speak, p. 100)...
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    Larsen 1902–1904 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition – led by William Speirs Bruce 1903–1905 – Second French Antarctic Expedition – led by Jean-Baptiste...
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    The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest...
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  • "True South". truesouthflag.com. 26 July 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2021. "Antarctic treaty, first consultative meeting, 10 Jul 1961" (PDF) (in French). "Postage...
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    Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions...
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    The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the...
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    The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere...
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    Scotia (barque) (category Sailing ships of Scotland)
    refitted as a research vessel for use by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. After the expedition, she served as a sealer, patrol vessel and collier...
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    The Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910–12, in the ship Kainan Maru, was the first such expedition by a non-European nation. It was concurrent with...
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    assault on the South Pole. In 1903, Dr William S. Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition set off to Antarctica, with one of its aims to establish...
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    The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour...
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    The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south...
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    William Speirs Bruce (category 19th-century Scottish people)
    the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE, 1902–04) to the South Orkney Islands and the Weddell Sea. Among other achievements, the expedition established...
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  • Expedition (1901–1904) commanded by Otto Nordenskjold, which wintered two years in Antarctica. In 1904, W. S. Bruce, leader of the Scottish National Antarctic...
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    Polar Star The success of the 1892-93 expedition led directly to the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902–04, and to Dundee being chosen for...
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    discovered from the Scotia by William S. Bruce, leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902-1904. He gave the name Coats Land for James Coats...
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    the Antarctic Plate and the South American Plate. The Scotia Plate takes its name from the steam yacht Scotia of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition...
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    Speirs Bruce in his Arctic, Antarctic and Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, Amundsen in the Gjøa North West passage expedition, Fridtjof Nansen's attempt...
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    Viscount Melville, but the name failed to stick when the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition opted for Laurie Island instead. William S. Bruce conducted...
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    the next twenty years. In late 1903, crew members of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition were hosted at the summer residence[where?] of W. G. Davis...
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    The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...
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    This was the first of several expeditions based in McMurdo Sound. A year later, the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition was launched, headed by William...
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  • The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica...
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    Orcadas Base (category British Antarctic Territory)
    meters (558 ft) from the coastline. Established by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in 1903 and transferred to the Argentine government in 1904...
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    the Antarctic islands with the purchase of a meteorological station on Laurie Island established in 1903 by Dr William S. Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic...
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  • The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (Russian: Советская антарктическая экспедиция, САЭ, Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya) was part of...
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    James Murray (biologist) (category Scottish explorers)
    1906. Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Tardigrada of the South Orkneys. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb., 45: 323 - 339 Murray, J., 1906. Scottish Alpine...
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    This list includes all the main Antarctic exploration ships that were employed in the seventeen expeditions that took place in the era between 1897 and...
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