by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | From Our Readership
David Harry researched and wrote this fantastic piece on his great, great, Uncle, Harold Bowyer Bull, who had sailed to Antarctica with Shackleton’s 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition as a crew member on the S.Y. (Steam Yacht) Nimrod. Read the...
by admin | Dec 18, 2022 | From Our Readership
Stephen Wilkins is likely – but not certainly – a direct descendant of the pioneering Wilkins family. Stephen is most interested in Wilkins via his own experiences in the Southern Oceans. He has been present at talks when in Adelaide. I recently asked if he could...
by admin | Nov 18, 2021 | Diaries
By Philip Van Dueren in collaboration with Dr Jan Chojecki, grandson of John Quiller Rowett and author of the Quest Chronicle http://www.questchronicle.org.uk which provides a day by day account of the Shackleton-Rowett (Quest) Expedition 1921-1922. Images kindly...
by admin | Aug 18, 2021 | Diaries
By Philip Van Dueren With the 100-year anniversary of the departure of the Quest upon us soon, I have just completed Wilkins’ diary transcriptions for the whole expedition (his part being from 17 September 1921 until arrival in Plymouth on 15 September 1922). He...
by admin | Aug 3, 2021 | From Our Readership
The Wilkins Foundation sometimes unearths wonderful stories. Here is something a new volunteer sent us about her father, Alan Parker, who was the Officer in Charge at Davis Base, Antarctica, in the year Sir Hubert Wilkins’s records were relocated in 1977. Sue is in...
