William Speirs Bruce
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William Speirs Bruce was a British naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who organised and led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition to the South Orkney Islands and the Weddell Sea. Among other achievements, the expedition established the first permanent weather station in Antarctica.
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The Speirs Bruce Way in Granton, Edinburgh, Scotland, named for William Speirs Bruce
Fridtjof Nansen
Prince Albert of Monaco, aboard Princesse Alice, with a dissected cetacean
Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society
Scotia, anchored at Laurie Island. 1903
Sir John Murray, an early mentor to Bruce
An enduring image of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Piper Gilbert Kerr, with penguin, photographed by BruceAwards 4
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Friedrich Hermann Otto FinschAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
Théodore MonodAlso won Patron’s Medal
Spencer Fullerton BairdAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
Eric ShiptonAlso won Patron’s Medal
Erich von DrygalskiAlso won David Livingstone Centenary MedalAbout this person
William Speirs Bruce was a British naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who organised and led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition to the South Orkney Islands and the Weddell Sea. Among other achievements, the expedition established the first permanent weather station in Antarctica. Bruce later founded the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory in Edinburgh, but his plans for a transcontinental Antarctic march via the South Pole were abandoned because of lack of public and financial support.
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