Quest Chronicle
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Polar Exploration:The Shackleton-Rowett Expedition and the broader Quest family.
Antarctica. South Georgia. Polar science. Rowett.
https://questchronicle.org.uk/
Antarctica. South Georgia. Polar science. Rowett.
https://questchronicle.org.uk/
In case you missed it.. youtu.be/XQ5QBMl5K1I
TARIFF OF THE PENGUINS (March of the Penguins parody)
YouTube video by Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies
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April 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
In case you missed it.. youtu.be/XQ5QBMl5K1I
The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust and South Georgia Heritage Trust charity auction is now live online.
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Antarctica & South Georgia Charity Auction
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April 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust and South Georgia Heritage Trust charity auction is now live online.
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Still time to bid today..ReQuest Polar Auction - help support youth polar projects
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March 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Still time to bid today..ReQuest Polar Auction - help support youth polar projects
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Polar Auction - get ready to bid. Some real gems going. From 9am tomorrow Saturday 1 March. Help the #RequestFoundation Support youth polar projects
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February 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Polar Auction - get ready to bid. Some real gems going. From 9am tomorrow Saturday 1 March. Help the #RequestFoundation Support youth polar projects
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12 February 1922. Quest is in thick ice about 100 miles from the Antarctic coast. They turn back. It is their “farthest South”.
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February 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
12 February 1922. Quest is in thick ice about 100 miles from the Antarctic coast. They turn back. It is their “farthest South”.
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questchronicle.org.uk
Krill from space. James Marr would approve. www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...
Krill monitoring | University of Strathclyde
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February 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Krill from space. James Marr would approve. www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...
15/1/1922 Wilkins writes "why come this far south trusting that we may get something from the whaling stations rather than making sure ..? The whole organisation seems to have been a hopeless muddle and it is the laughing stock of these Norwegians who are keen and capable.”
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January 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
15/1/1922 Wilkins writes "why come this far south trusting that we may get something from the whaling stations rather than making sure ..? The whole organisation seems to have been a hopeless muddle and it is the laughing stock of these Norwegians who are keen and capable.”
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The beautiful and unique autochromes made by Wilkins on the Quest expedition are available as limited edition high definition prints from master printers Salto Ulbeek salto-ulbeek.com/publishing/t...
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More info questchronicle.org.uk
January 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The beautiful and unique autochromes made by Wilkins on the Quest expedition are available as limited edition high definition prints from master printers Salto Ulbeek salto-ulbeek.com/publishing/t...
More info questchronicle.org.uk
More info questchronicle.org.uk
2 January 1922 on #Quest, nearing #SouthGeorgia #Shackleton writes "Ah me! The years that have gone since, in the pride of manhood, I first went forth to the fight! I grow old and tired, but must always lead on"
January 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
2 January 1922 on #Quest, nearing #SouthGeorgia #Shackleton writes "Ah me! The years that have gone since, in the pride of manhood, I first went forth to the fight! I grow old and tired, but must always lead on"
#Today 1 Jan 1915, #GlasgowHighlanders are in French Flanders. Walter Coats, John Quller Rowett’s brother-in-law, greets the #NewYear 'digging in bright moonlight with snipers busy all round'. Read Walter's story in #WeAreAllFlourishing
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January 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#Today 1 Jan 1915, #GlasgowHighlanders are in French Flanders. Walter Coats, John Quller Rowett’s brother-in-law, greets the #NewYear 'digging in bright moonlight with snipers busy all round'. Read Walter's story in #WeAreAllFlourishing
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#Congratulations to David Mearns FRCGS, search Director in this year's @RCGS_SGRC mission that found #Quest, appointed OBE in #NewYearsHonours 🎖️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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December 31, 2024 at 10:30 AM
#Congratulations to David Mearns FRCGS, search Director in this year's @RCGS_SGRC mission that found #Quest, appointed OBE in #NewYearsHonours 🎖️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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#Today 27 December 1921. On #SouthGeorgia
Wilkins does a photostudy of the "miniature waterfall" in colour and b&w - longer exp. for the autochrome.
NB *LIMITED EDITION PRINTS* of Wilkins' colour photos from #Quest are available from master printers SALTO ULBEEK
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Wilkins does a photostudy of the "miniature waterfall" in colour and b&w - longer exp. for the autochrome.
NB *LIMITED EDITION PRINTS* of Wilkins' colour photos from #Quest are available from master printers SALTO ULBEEK
salto-ulbeek.com/publishing/t...
December 27, 2024 at 10:16 AM
#Today 27 December 1921. On #SouthGeorgia
Wilkins does a photostudy of the "miniature waterfall" in colour and b&w - longer exp. for the autochrome.
NB *LIMITED EDITION PRINTS* of Wilkins' colour photos from #Quest are available from master printers SALTO ULBEEK
salto-ulbeek.com/publishing/t...
Wilkins does a photostudy of the "miniature waterfall" in colour and b&w - longer exp. for the autochrome.
NB *LIMITED EDITION PRINTS* of Wilkins' colour photos from #Quest are available from master printers SALTO ULBEEK
salto-ulbeek.com/publishing/t...
#ChristmasEve 1921. On #Quest en route to #SouthGeorgia 'heartbreaker' Roddy Carr breaks his nose; Wild pours the peg, "a generous hand with the bottle" as Naisbitt observes. Alone in a storm on SG Wilkins has #Xmas dinner early, roasts a duck. More in The Quest Chronicle questchronicle.org.uk
December 24, 2024 at 2:02 PM
#ChristmasEve 1921. On #Quest en route to #SouthGeorgia 'heartbreaker' Roddy Carr breaks his nose; Wild pours the peg, "a generous hand with the bottle" as Naisbitt observes. Alone in a storm on SG Wilkins has #Xmas dinner early, roasts a duck. More in The Quest Chronicle questchronicle.org.uk
#Rio 8 December 1921. #Shackleton after likely overnight heart attack writes to John Quiller Rowett "tell Ellie, Never for me the lowered banner, Never the lost endeavour". Now repaired, RYS Quest departs for #SouthGeorgia
December 18, 2024 at 9:09 AM
#Rio 8 December 1921. #Shackleton after likely overnight heart attack writes to John Quiller Rowett "tell Ellie, Never for me the lowered banner, Never the lost endeavour". Now repaired, RYS Quest departs for #SouthGeorgia
PS credits to @alannoakembe.bsky.social 👍
Got some spare time and want to help with penguin research? Here is a citizen science project counting Adélie penguins in aerial imagery as part of a Masters thesis, and it's just gone into beta 🐧
www.zooniverse.org/projects/kie...
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December 11, 2024 at 9:10 AM
PS credits to @alannoakembe.bsky.social 👍
Got some spare time and want to help with penguin research? Here is a citizen science project counting Adélie penguins in aerial imagery as part of a Masters thesis, and it's just gone into beta 🐧
www.zooniverse.org/projects/kie...
www.zooniverse.org/projects/kie...
Zooniverse
The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.
www.zooniverse.org
December 11, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Got some spare time and want to help with penguin research? Here is a citizen science project counting Adélie penguins in aerial imagery as part of a Masters thesis, and it's just gone into beta 🐧
www.zooniverse.org/projects/kie...
www.zooniverse.org/projects/kie...
Very honoured and delighted to receive the Quest Medal from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society for my (very minor) role in the mission that located the wreck of #Shackleton 's last ship in June this year @rcgssgrc.bsky.social
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November 26, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Very honoured and delighted to receive the Quest Medal from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society for my (very minor) role in the mission that located the wreck of #Shackleton 's last ship in June this year @rcgssgrc.bsky.social
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Arrived today. Nice one Anne Strathie. More than just a collection of items, this is full of fascinating #polar details. And several bits of the #QuestExpedition in there 👍
November 22, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Arrived today. Nice one Anne Strathie. More than just a collection of items, this is full of fascinating #polar details. And several bits of the #QuestExpedition in there 👍
Sponsor a rivet in #SouthGeorgia Heritage Trust's #whale memorial. South Georgia Heritage Trust promotes the conservation and protection of the physical and natural environment and surrounding waters of South Georgia.
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Whale Memorial
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November 21, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Sponsor a rivet in #SouthGeorgia Heritage Trust's #whale memorial. South Georgia Heritage Trust promotes the conservation and protection of the physical and natural environment and surrounding waters of South Georgia.
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Good morning BlueSky. Another X back number from Quest Chronicle. Reminder of the intrigue of Quest, Shackleton's last expedition, and its aftermath. Issued when The Quest Chronicle book first published in 2022, the centenary of the #Shackleton #Rowett #Expedition
More info: questchronicle.org.uk
More info: questchronicle.org.uk
November 21, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Good morning BlueSky. Another X back number from Quest Chronicle. Reminder of the intrigue of Quest, Shackleton's last expedition, and its aftermath. Issued when The Quest Chronicle book first published in 2022, the centenary of the #Shackleton #Rowett #Expedition
More info: questchronicle.org.uk
More info: questchronicle.org.uk
Plus a highly collectable 48-page catalogue with all 30 of the unrestored Quest autochromes, 21 full-page images restored by Georges Charlier of Salto Ulbeek and their story written by Jan Chojecki, author of The Quest Chronicle
Available here: questchronicle.org.uk/photographs/
Available here: questchronicle.org.uk/photographs/
November 19, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Plus a highly collectable 48-page catalogue with all 30 of the unrestored Quest autochromes, 21 full-page images restored by Georges Charlier of Salto Ulbeek and their story written by Jan Chojecki, author of The Quest Chronicle
Available here: questchronicle.org.uk/photographs/
Available here: questchronicle.org.uk/photographs/
The Quest Autochromes now as Limited Edition prints from Salto Ulbeek. Unveiled last week in Athy and as backdrop of #HopeCross at Discovery Point Dundee.GH Wilkins' stunning images of #Shackleton's Quest and #SouthGeorgia
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more info questchronicle.org.uk/photographs/
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more info questchronicle.org.uk/photographs/
November 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM
The Quest Autochromes now as Limited Edition prints from Salto Ulbeek. Unveiled last week in Athy and as backdrop of #HopeCross at Discovery Point Dundee.GH Wilkins' stunning images of #Shackleton's Quest and #SouthGeorgia
salto-ulbeek.com/publishing/t...
more info questchronicle.org.uk/photographs/
salto-ulbeek.com/publishing/t...
more info questchronicle.org.uk/photographs/
Hello all - have just changed the #BlueSky #handle to the Quest Chronicle domain name 😅 questchronicle.org.uk
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Quest Chronicle – The Shackleton-Rowett (Quest) Expedition 1921-1922
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November 19, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Hello all - have just changed the #BlueSky #handle to the Quest Chronicle domain name 😅 questchronicle.org.uk
Thanks for following. More to come!
Thanks for following. More to come!