PROVISIONAL SKETCH MAP OF THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF MR E.H. SHACKLETON, 1907 - 8 - 9 From Drawings by Eric Marshall, M.B., Cartographer
Map of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition PROVISIONAL SKETCH MAP OF THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF MR E.H. SHACKLETON, 1907 - 8 - 9 From Drawings by Eric Marshall, M.B., Cartographer
Royal Geographical Society, 1909.
Printed in black, red and blue, with inset plans of Cape Royds and Tasmania. Image size 31.5 x 33 cm. In very good condition indeed, just a little creasing and a patch of light foxing to the upper corner.
Issued upon the occasion of Shackleton speaking at the Royal Albert Hall, June 28th 1909 under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society. Marshall was the expedition's surgeon, surveyor and cartographer and was part of the four man party which, led by Shackleton, set out for the South Geographical Pole in 1908. On 9 January 1909 they reached the furthest south they could, bad weather and ill health preventing further progress. In his diary, Marshall wrote "Marched hard till 9 when we hoisted the Queen's flag in lat. of 88°23 S. The highest, coldest, bleakest, windiest plateau in the world, the great King Edward VII Plateau."
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