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“UNFINISHED BUSINESS: AN ACCOUNT
OF THE 2008/9 SHACKLETON CENTENARY EXPEDITION TO THE
SOUTH POLE” |
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AN EVENING TALK BY
LT-COLONEL HENRY WORSLEY EXPEDITION LEADER
6.15 PM TUESDAY 26 MAY 2009
IN THE McDONALD GALLERY, GURKHA MUSEUM
Sponsored by
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Ernest Shackleton returned to Britain from
Captain Scott’s 1903 Discovery Expedition
determined to mount his own assault on the
unclaimed South Pole. He did so in 1908, but on
9 January 1909 was obliged to abandon the
attempt 97 miles short of the Pole. Henry
Worsley and two colleagues, all descendants of
participants in Shackleton’s 1908/9 Nimrod
Expedition, decided to mark the expedition’s
centenary by completing what was, for them,
unfinished family business. In an illustrated
evening talk on 26 May, Henry Worsley, a serving
officer in The Rifles who led the 2008/9
Shackleton Centenary Expedition, will describe
what it was like to follow the same route as
Shackleton 100 years earlier, this time
successfully.
Tickets for the talk, including a glass (or two)
of wine plus up-market nibbles after the talk,
cost £15 per person (£12.50 for Friends of the
Museum). Tickets must be booked in advance
through the Museum Curator, Mrs Christine
Pullen, at:
The Royal Green Jackets Museum, Peninsula
Barracks, Romsey Road,
Winchester, Hants, SO23 8TS Tel: 01962 828549
e-mail:
museum@royalgreenjackets.co.uk
(The Gurkha Museum is located just off the
Romsey Road (A3090/B3040), 100 metres from the
Great Hall, Winchester. Free car parking will be
available in designated spaces for those holding
tickets for the talk. Please follow the
directions on arrival as vehicle clamping is in
operation for illegal parking.) |
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