Ross Sea party

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The Ross Sea party was a support group of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition tasked with laying vital supply depots across the Ross Ice Shelf for Ernest Shackleton’s planned crossing of Antarctica.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Antarctic expedition support group
historical expedition party
achievement completed depot-laying to Mount Hope
associatedWith Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration NERFINISHED
baseLocation Cape Evans NERFINISHED
Hut Point NERFINISHED
casualties three men died
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
documentedIn The Ross Sea Shore Party 1914–17 diaries and accounts NERFINISHED
endYear 1917
expeditionCommander Ernest Shackleton NERFINISHED
expeditionLeader Aeneas Mackintosh NERFINISHED
expeditionObjective support transcontinental Antarctic crossing
hasRole depot-laying party
support party
historicalAssessment heroic but long overshadowed by main expedition
languageOfRecords English
member Aeneas Mackintosh NERFINISHED
Alexander Stevens NERFINISHED
Arnold Spencer-Smith NERFINISHED
Ernest Joyce NERFINISHED
Ernest Wild NERFINISHED
Harry Dickason NERFINISHED
James Paton NERFINISHED
Joseph Stenhouse NERFINISHED
Richard W. Richards NERFINISHED
Victor Hayward NERFINISHED
namedAfter Ross Sea NERFINISHED
notableEvent Aurora torn from moorings and driven out to sea
stranding of shore party without main supplies
operatedInRegion Ross Sea NERFINISHED
operatedOn Ross Ice Shelf NERFINISHED
Ross Island NERFINISHED
operatedUnderConditions World War I era NERFINISHED
partOf Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition NERFINISHED
shipUsed SY Aurora NERFINISHED
sponsoredBy Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition NERFINISHED
startYear 1914
suffered frostbite
scurvy
severe hardship
task lay supply depots across the Ross Ice Shelf
support Shackleton’s planned crossing of Antarctica
transport and cache food and fuel
timePeriod 1914–1917

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