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THE JAMES CAIRD SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

The James Caird Society Annual Newsletter, circulated free of charge to all members, keeps them in touch with activities and developments.

Recent items featured in the Newsletter include extensive information the planned 2008 Shackleton Centenary Expedition, reconstructing the journey south from the Nimrod in 1908-9; a welcome to Vice-Admiral Sir James Perowne as the Society's Chairman and a farewell to Major-General Patrick Fagan; the arrival of Captain Bob Tarrant as commander of the Polar vessel HMS Endurance; a report on the visit of the James Caird to the National Maritime Museum, Cornwall's 'Ships and the Sea' exhibition in Falmouth; sundry reports on the repair and preservation of Shackleton's and other huts on the Ross Sea Island; reports from the annual Shackleton School at the Athy Heritage Centre; and Dr. Hussey's famous banjo from the Endurance

Earlier editions included the Pole2pole expedition, a journey by sledge wheelchair and on foot to the Pole in aid of Muscular Dystrophy, by a sufferer who had already made it to the North Pole; the James Caird's years at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; 'The American on Endurance', an overview of William Bakewell; the opening of the acclaimed IMAX film Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure and the film Shackleton, starring Kenneth Branagh; a review of Williams Mills's groundbreaking Historical Encylopedia Exploring Polar Frontiers; the South Georgia Museum; William Speirs Bruce and the voyage of the Scotia (Scottish Antarctic Expedition); the widely acclaimed Shackleton, the Antarctic and Endurance Exhibition at Dulwich College; the Hon. Alexandra Shackleton's visit to Chile; the Endurance exhibitions in New York and Washington; David Mearns' proposals for locating and retrieving the sunken Endurance; action in support of Albatrosses; the opening by Alexandra Shackleton of the Shackleton Library at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge; the Irish South Aris expedition; Borge Ousland's solo crossing of Antarctica and the Society's celebration of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 125th anniversary.

The James Caird Society Newsletter was edited until 2007 by Margaret Slythe, the former Dulwich College Archivist and a JCS Committee Member. The Society very much welcomes material relating to all things Shackletonian, for possible inclusion in future issues.

It is hoped that back copies of the Society's Newsletter will be in due course appearing on the website in .PDF format. The current Newsletter is available to Society Members only.