British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 Old Postcard Union Jack South Magnetic Pole

Vintage Old Original Postcard. The British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. Shackleton, Nimrod. Snow Snowy Ground. British Flag. Union Jack Hoisted at South Magnetic Pole.

Alistair Forbes Mackay (Scottish doctor and polar explorer), Douglas Mawson and Professor Edgeworth David, the first humans to reach the South Magnetic Pole.

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Background: British Antarctic Expedition, The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–09, was the first of 3 expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole. This was not attained, but the expedition's southern march reached a Farthest South latitude of 88° 23' S, just 97.5 nautical miles (180.6 km; 112.2 mi) from the pole. This was by far the longest southern polar journey to that date and a record convergence on either Pole.

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