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Polar Exploration:The Shackleton-Rowett Expedition and the broader Quest family.
Antarctica. South Georgia. Polar science. Rowett.

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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
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
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
Not just any life boat
January 9, 2025 at 8:44 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...

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January 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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
#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
#Congratulations to David Mearns FRCGS, search Director in this year's @RCGS_SGRC mission that found #Quest, appointed OBE in #NewYearsHonours 🎖️

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December 31, 2024 at 10:30 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
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December 27, 2024 at 10:16 AM
#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
#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
Back home now 😭 but this was take-off from Joburg night before last @britishairways.bsky.social
December 9, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Congrats. Hope all will help the chances of beauties such as this leatherback seen after laying on the coast of Kwazulu-Natal a couple of nights ago.
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Off duty from polar expedition history this week took this on OlympusTG6 at Hully Point near Mabibi, KwaZulu-Natal
December 3, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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
Her he is!
November 23, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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
James Marr of Quest, Operation Tabarind, FIDS and thence BAS, and author of the definitive work on #krill would approve!
November 21, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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
November 21, 2024 at 9:23 AM
November 21, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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/
November 19, 2024 at 7:22 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
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November 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Among origins of Quest Chronicle, as some further introduction, was ReQuest2021 - sending a group of #Scouts to #Antarctica, marking the #centenary of James Marr on the #Shackleton Rowett Expedition. Marr > FIDS > BAS @antarcticsurvey.bsky.social More about ReQuest2021 here-
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November 19, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Three for one? Quest (then and now); the Lady Daphne - centenary of Quest departing London; the Leeway Odyssey (from which we found Quest). More at questchronicle.org.uk
November 18, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Hello @bsky.app Quest Chronicle here. Looking forward to reconnecting with the #polar communities and followers of #exploration history. Appropriate start point - the #bluesky over #SouthGeorgia captured by GH Wilkins on the #Shackleton #Rowett #Expedtion. Their story in questchronicle.org.uk
November 17, 2024 at 10:46 AM