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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 28/02/2025

Polar Auction - get ready to bid. Some real gems going. From 9am tomorrow Saturday 1 March. Help the #RequestFoundation Support youth polar projects jumblebee.co.uk/requestfound... @salto-ulbeek.bsky.social @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social @antarcticheritage.bsky.social @discoverypoint.bsky.social

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 12/02/2025

12 February 1922. Quest is in thick ice about 100 miles from the Antarctic coast. They turn back. It is their “farthest South”. questchronicle.org.uk

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 04/02/2025

Krill from space. James Marr would approve. www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...

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Krill monitoring | University of Strathclyde

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 15/01/2025

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.” questchronicle.org.uk

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 06/01/2025

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

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 02/01/2025

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"

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 01/01/2025

#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 questchronicle.org.uk/we-are-all-f...

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 31/12/2024

#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... canadiangeographic.ca/articles/rcg...

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 27/12/2024

#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...

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 24/12/2024

#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

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 18/12/2024

#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

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 11/12/2024

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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Zooniverse

The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 09/12/2024

Back home now 😭 but this was take-off from Joburg night before last @britishairways.bsky.social

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 06/12/2024

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.

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 03/12/2024

Off duty from polar expedition history this week took this on OlympusTG6 at Hully Point near Mabibi, KwaZulu-Natal

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 26/11/2024

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 rcgs.org/about/news-r...

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 23/11/2024

To go back to the bee-gining 😅 John Charles “Bee” Mason went on the #Shackleton Rowett Expedition to Antarctica to make the record of the #expedition His expertise was films of…bees (B movies?). He got seasick and was sent home early. www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/12...

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BFI Screenonline: Bee-Mason, J.C. (1874-1957) Biography

Director, Photography

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 22/11/2024

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 👍

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 21/11/2024

James Marr of Quest, Operation Tabarind, FIDS and thence BAS, and author of the definitive work on #krill would approve!

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 21/11/2024

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. sght.org/whale-memori...

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Whale Memorial

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 21/11/2024

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

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 19/11/2024

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/

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 19/11/2024

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/

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 19/11/2024

Hello all - have just changed the #BlueSky #handle to the Quest Chronicle domain name 😅 questchronicle.org.uk Thanks for following. More to come!

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Quest Chronicle – The Shackleton-Rowett (Quest) Expedition 1921-1922

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 19/11/2024

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- www.request2021.org.uk

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 18/11/2024

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

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Quest Chronicle @questchronicle.org.uk · 17/11/2024

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

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