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He writes: 'My connection with the Society started in 1994, when I had the honour as Captain of HMS Norfolk to take Alexandra Shackleton from the Falkland Islands to South Georgia for her first visit to her grandfather's grave in Grytviken cemetery.
Zaz also unveiled a blue plaque we had placed by the Manager's Villa in Stromness, to commemorate her grandfather's arrival there prior to his remarkable rescue of all his men. I have to report that although this was the manager's house when Stromness was finally closed, there is now some doubt whether it was actually the manager's dwelling in 1916!
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My relationship with the Antarctic started when as a Midshipman I went for the 1966-7 season in the then Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector, and spent eight weeks living in tents in Robert Island, in the South Shetlands, conducting a boat survey of the English Strait. I still have a copy of that original survey on my wall to this day.
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The first has just retraced part of Shackleton's planned crossing of the Pole. The second, in the Antarctic summer of 2007-8, plans to complete Shackleton's attempt on the Pole in 1909, when he achieved his 'Furthest South'. The Shackleton Centenary Expedition, of which this Society is a sponsor, will be made up of descendants of the original team, including Shackleton's grandson, and will be led by Colonel Henry Worsley.
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