Polar Castaways by Richard McElrea David Harrowfield

Author:Richard McElrea, David Harrowfield [Richard McElrea, David Harrowfield]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Polar Regions, Expeditions & Discoveries
ISBN: 9780773528253
Google: MZwCFCHybgEC
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2004-01-15T03:38:08+00:00

Notes

1. Place names as at 1916 are taken from the map contained in Scott 1913.

2. Now known as the Polar Plateau.

3. Joyce diary, 3 January 1916.

4. Gaze diary, 3 January 1916.

5. Jack diary, 5 January 1916.

6. Gaze diary, 6 January 1916.

7. Jack diary, 6 January 1916.

8. Joyce diary, 5 January 1916.

9. Richards, interview with McElrea; Richards to Harrowfield, 19 September 1982; Richards to McElrea, 19 September 1984.

10. Jack diary, 6 January 1916.

11. Gaze diary, 6 January 1916.

12. Ibid.

13. Jack diary, 6 January 1916.

14. Spencer-Smith diary, 7 January 1916.

15. Jack diary, 7 January 1916.

16. Gaze diary, 14 January 1916; Jack diary, 14 January 1916.

17. Jack diary, 13 January 1916.

18. Ibid., 14 January 1916.

19. Gaze diary, 15 January 1916.

20. Spencer-Smith diary, 12 January 1916.

21. Ibid., 8, 9 January 1916.

22. Joyce diary, 9–16 January 1916. The accounts in his rewritten version and his book both vary from his diary.

23. Spencer-Smith diary, 8 January 1916.

24. Richards, correspondence with authors.

25. Spencer-Smith diary, 16 January 1916.

26. Joyce diary, 13 January 1916.

27. Spencer-Smith diary, 11 January 1916.

28. Wild diary, 21 January 1916. Also recorded by Spencer-Smith.

29. Spencer-Smith diary, 18, 19 January 1916.

30. Memorandum signed by Richards on 3 February 1956 and attached to the original agreement, now held at CM.

31. Richards, interview with Lathlean.

32. Richards, interview with Harrowfield.

33. Mackintosh/Richards agreement at latitiude 82° South, 18 January 1916, CM. The amount of annual payment is not specified in the signed agreement.

34. Spencer-Smith diary, 18 January 1916.

35. Wild diary, 18 January 1916.

36. Richards 1962, p. 24.

37. Richards to McElrea, 16 March 1972.

38. Joyce diary, 19 January 1916. This varies slightly from his rewritten version and his book.

39. Ibid., 20, 21 January 1916. Again, Joyce’s other accounts vary.

40. Spencer-Smith diary, 21 January 1916.

41. Ibid., 21, 22 January 1916.

42. Wild diary, 22 January 1916.

43. Joyce diary, 22 January 1916. His claims in his book that he examined Mackintosh’s knee (‘it is blue …’) is not in his diary.

44. Joyce diary, 21 January 1916.

45. Wild diary, 23 January 1916.

46. Ibid., 25 January 1916. Joyce’s references in his book to rubbing down the Skipper with methylated spirits is not in his diary.

47. Shackleton 1909, i, p. 310. Scott’s expedition termed this feature ‘the Gateway’, Scott 1913 i, p. 628.

48. Joyce diary, 26 January 1916.

49. Ibid., 26 January 1916. This differs from the description in Joyce’s book.

50. Recounted by Richards on several occasions, including interview with Lathlean.

51. Joyce diary, 26 January 1916. Joyce confuses the portrayal of events by writing in his book: ‘I decided to take the depot up Mt Hope … Arrived at the summit.’ This, like many entries quoted as verbatim diary entries in his book, does not appear in his diary. No photographs of the Mt Hope depot are known to exist.

52. Wild diary, 26 January 1916.

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