Talk:Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

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ITAE family

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The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition family of articles now numbers 30 articles, including 21 biographies of personnel and one cat biography. Details are tabled below.

Article Name Current rating
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition FA
Ross Sea party FA
Aurora's Drift GA
Voyage of the James Caird Start-class
Endurance (1912 ship) B
Aurora (ship) B
List of personnel not rated
Ernest Shackleton FA
Frank Wild stub
Perce Blackborow Start-class
Alfred Cheetham Start-class
Robert Clark (biologist) B
Tom Crean GA
Victor Hayward not rated
Frank Hurley Start-class
Ernest Joyce FA
Aeneas Mackintosh FA
Alexander Macklin Start-class
James McIlroy Start-class
Harry McNish FA
Thomas Orde-Lees Start-class
James Paton (seaman) not rated
Dick Richards Start-class
Arnold Spencer-Smith B
Joseph Stenhouse not rated
John Vincent (sailor) Start-class
Ernest Wild not rated
James Wordie Start-class
Frank Worsley Start-class
Mrs Chippy Start-class

List started on 14 April 2008 and updated since then. Most recent update: 18:58, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Consolidated bibliography

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The following is a bibliography for all books cited, or listed as further reading, in the ITAE group of articles as listed. It does not include on-line sources.

Splendid article

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Congratulations to everyone involved in this. It was a real pleasure to see something so informative and well-put together on the main page, instead of the usual rubbish about computer games or sportsmen or pop culture figures. I enjoyed reading it very much and it has spurred me on to find out more about such Antarctic expeditions. Well done all. 86.162.203.2 (talk) 15:22, 28 June 2008 (UTC) Please try to refrain from making a potential villan out of Thomas Orde-Lees. He was obviously correct and his objection to not stockpile fresh meat when it was available. Of cannibalism his comment could have been made in any tounge in cheek fashion. He survived as all those brave men did, is that not whats important here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.142.50.57 (talk) 04:50, 1 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

News -- Brandy and Whisky Recovered

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Not sure where to put this. Perhaps someone more familiar with the articles can place it appropriately. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8499931.stm Victor Engel (talk) 00:51, 8 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

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World War I

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The United Kingdom declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914 and the expedition left Plymouth 4 days later. I know little about conscription in WW1, but was there a reason why the crew weren't recalled for war duty at a later date when conscription was implemented? Was it because they were too hard to contact? Or did the government see national morale boosting value in the continuance of their expedition? Or was conscription not applied to every man of fighting age? 86.133.212.6 (talk) 11:08, 17 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Conscription wasn't implemented in the Empire immediately upon declaring war for the simple reason that no-one knew how long or how serious the fighting would be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.10.189 (talk) 10:13, 30 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Redundancy

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The same shortened version of this article is scattered throughout Wikipedia, in every article related to the expedition. Can someone please replace them with Hyperlinks? Thanks. (I would do it myself, but right now don't want to cope with all the vitriol an IP has to suffer to change anything of substance.)91.10.5.43 (talk) 01:05, 4 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Image with map and timeline of the path of the crew added

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I added a visualization of the expedition, from Endurance beset to the final rescue. There is a timeline within the map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LucaWist (talkcontribs) 17:07, 1 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Image with map and timeline of the path of the crew added

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I added a visualization of the expedition, from Endurance beset to the final rescue. There is a timeline within the map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LucaWist (talkcontribs) 17:10, 1 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Could someone look at the "External links section for trimming? Things sometimes just creep in but 10 is excessive. 3-5 would be an acceptable number without claims of link farming. Otr500 (talk) 06:01, 23 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

Re: Personnel - Hypothetical "Men Wanted" advertisement

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I saw this image of the hypothetical advertisement in an unrelated story on Ars Technica. While it could be a fake, it doesn't have the air of a fake. The URL implies it's something to do with the Smithsonian (magazine), which is a source I would tend to treat as reliable, barring any contra-indications. A question for font experts: Is the font used in the clipping any use in narrowing down candidate newspapers?. Philh-591 (talk) 20:48, 22 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

If anyone is in a position to look up a Smithsonian Magazine archive in a library, the URL also implies a date of 9 Oct 2013 or 10 Sept 2013 for an article about Shackleton, depending on whether the hinted at date is in US American order or not. Philh-591 (talk) 20:59, 22 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Sorry for wasting your time. The Smithsonian Magazine article turns out to be an article scotching the idea that there was an advertisement, with this image as an illustration and notes that exhaustive newspaper archive searches have turned up nothing. Also I notice that the image uses the American spelling of "honor", which I suppose is a hint that it's not for real. Philh-591 (talk) 21:09, 22 November 2022 (UTC)Reply