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The excitement is building for a Festival of Shackleton next week! ⭐️Watch our trailer for a sneak peek of what's in store on the night, and some of Ernest #shackleton’s connections to the city of Discovery. ⏰Thurs 5th Dec, 7pm 📍 Caird Hall, Dundee 🎟️: bit.ly/3Yke8sf

Food system reform: Henry Dimbleby 's Carnegie Lecture of 6 November marking 75 years of first Rowett Institute director John Body Orr receiving the The Nobel Prize for Peace "for his lifelong work to conquer #hunger" is now viewable on #YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=Kuo1Pm… Rowett Institute

#RioDeJaneiro 18 December 1921. #Shackleton after likely overnight heart attack writes to John Quiller Rowett "tell Ellie, Never for me the lowered banner, Never the lost endeavour". Now repaired, Quest departs for #SouthGeorgia Shackleton Museum Athy Dulwich Archive SGHT

Scientists may not always sing from the same hymn sheet - but the Rowett family is in one voice as we sign off 2024 with a message for everyone we've worked with and all those with whom we'll share our passion for improving the health of the nation - and the planet - in 2025...

#ChristmasEve 1921. On #Quest en route to #SouthGeorgia 'heartbreaker' Roddy Carr breaks his nose; Wild pours the peg, "a generous hand with the bottle"; alone in a storm on SG Wilkins has #Xmas dinner early, roasts a duck. More in The Quest Chronicle questchronicle.org.uk

#Today 27 December 1921. On #SouthGeorgia Wilkins does a photostudy of the "miniature waterfall" in colour and b&w. NOTE: LIMITED EDITION PRINTS of Wilkins colour photos from #Quest are available from master printers SALTO ULBEEK salto-ulbeek.com/publishing/the… SGHT

#Congratulations to David Mearns FRCGS, search Director in this year's Royal Canadian Geographical Society mission that found #Quest, appointed OBE in #NewYearsHonours 🎖️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… canadiangeographic.ca/articles/rcgs-… Canadian Geographic Shackleton The Fram Museum

1 Jan 1915, #GlasgowHighlanders are in French Flanders. Walter Coats, John Q Rowett’s brother in law, greets the #NewYear 'digging in bright moonlight with snipers busy all round'. Read in #WeAreAllFlourishing questchronicle.org.uk/we-are-all-flo… University of Glasgow Fettes College & Fettes Prep The Glasgow Academy

2 January 1922 on #Quest, nearing #SouthGeorgia #Shackleton writes "Ah me! The years that have gone since, in the pride of manhood, I first went forth to the fight! I grow old and tired, but must always lead on" Shackleton Museum Athy ShackletonFoundation SGHT

Krill form space. James Marr would approve. @request2021 British Antarctic Survey 🐧 Discovery Point Natural History Museum strath.ac.uk/whystrathclyde…

*from space 😅

12 February 1922. Quest is in thick ice about 100 miles from the Antarctic coat. They turn back. It is their “farthest South” questchronicle.org.uk

Polar Auction - get ready to bid. Some real gems to be had. From 9am GMT tomorrow Saturday 1 March. Help the #RequestFoundation Support youth polar projects jumblebee.co.uk/requestfoundat… @request2021 UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Discovery Point Shackleton Autumn School 🇦🇶 ShackletonFoundation Shackleton Royal Canadian Geographical Society

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Krill Are Simply Krilliant! 🦐💙 Antarctic krill may be tiny, but they play a big role—feeding whales, penguins & seals while helping lock away carbon in the deep ocean. Yet they face rising threats: Warming seas, increased fishing, and plastic pollution smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

Antarctic Exploration in Colour - Dundee Heritage Trust dundeeheritagetrust.co.uk/story/antarcti…

#Antarctica and South Georgia Charity Auction now live online jumblebee.co.uk/auction/detail… UK Antarctic Heritage Trust SGHT

In case you missed it…. youtu.be/XQ5QBMl5K1I

RYS Quest - official weather reporting ship. Royal Meteorological Society RSGS Discovery Point Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center NHM at Tring Natural History Museum UK Antarctic Heritage Trust Shackleton Shackleton Autumn School 🇦🇶 Canadian Geographic rmets.org/metmatters/que…