Established to support the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust in raising funds for the conservation of historical explorers' huts in the Ross Sea Region of Antarctica, and to recognise and conserve Britain’s history of exploration and scientific research.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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UK Antarctic Heritage Trust
Captain William Colbeck, 1871 - 1930, Antarctic explorer, lived in a house on...
Role on the lost expedition: Royal marine on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
Explorer, missionary, writer and medic. Born at Blantyre, just south of Glasgow. Qualified as a doctor in order to go as a medical missionary to China. Got the source of the Nile wrong and failed t...
Person, Exploring, Religion, Seriously Famous, Africa, Scotland
Astronaut. Â From Rianovosti: "Gagarin visited London in July 1961, three months after his legendary flight. He met with members of the Foundry Workers Union during his visit, as he had worked as a ...
Egyptologist, novelist, journalist, traveller. Born Colebrook Row, Islington. A successful novelist, her first visit to Egypt in 1873 caused her to change the course of her life. The destruction of...
Sea captain. He was commander of the packet ship The Antelope, which was part of the fleet of the East India Company. In 1783 he was shipwrecked off the island of Ulong. After some initial animosit...
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