1912
Inexpressible Island Geological Records
Priestley preserves geological notes and observations despite the Northern Party's cramped shelter, restricted diet and severe winter conditions.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Inexpressible Island in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Priestley preserves geological notes and observations despite the Northern Party's cramped shelter, restricted diet and severe winter conditions.
Browning suffers prolonged dysentery during the second winter, leaving him dangerously weakened before the march back to base.
Levick helps supplement reduced expedition rations with locally obtained seal and penguin meat during the unplanned winter.
Abbott badly cuts his hand while butchering a seal, adding a serious injury to the Northern Party's winter difficulties.
Endures the Northern Party's winter at Inexpressible Island.
Survives the Northern Party's snow-cave winter.
Northern Party winters in a snow cave after ship pickup fails.
Levick provides medical oversight while the Northern Party endures an unexpected winter on Inexpressible Island.
Priestley helps the stranded Northern Party survive the Antarctic winter in an ice cave on Inexpressible Island.
Campbell commands the stranded Northern Party as the men prepare an improvised winter shelter on Inexpressible Island.
Campbell's men begin converting a snowdrift into a cramped winter shelter after accepting that ship relief will not arrive.
Leads the Northern Party through winter in a snow cave.
The men survive largely on seals and penguins.
Campbell leads the weakened Northern Party away from Inexpressible Island on the long journey back toward Cape Evans.
Priestley leaves Inexpressible Island with the Northern Party for the long sledge journey back to Cape Evans.
Campbell leads the Northern Party away from its winter cave and south toward Cape Evans.
Provenance
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