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OVER 100 YEARS have passed since Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova expedition in which the British explorer raced in vain against Norway’s Roald Amundsen to become the first to reach the South Pole.
Scott did make it to the South Pole on 18 January 1912 – one month after Amundsen - but the Terra Nova expedition ended in disaster, with Scott and the other four members of his team dying on their return journey from the South Pole.
A search party discovered three of the bodies eight months later, along with photographs and diaries documenting the end of the expedition.
Irishman Tom Crean was part of the last support party for Scott’s polar team on Terra Nova. His solo 56-kilometre trek along the Ross Ice Shelf to seek help and save the life of teammate Teddy Evans earned him the Albert Medal (and was later recreated in that Guinness ad).
Crean later accompanied Co Kildare-born explorer Ernest Shackleton on his failed attempt to cross the Antarctic and was a central part of the dramatic rescue of the Endurance’s crew after their ship had become lodged and destroyed in the polar ice in 1915.
The gallery of images of the Terra Nova expedition shown below includes several which had been considered lost for decades. They had been printed by members of Scott’s team while in the Antarctic and depict the first part of Scott’s journey to the South Pole. They have been made available to TheJournal.ie courtesy of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge.
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I’d like to see them named using some of the usual profanities that we actually refer with them anyway.
* storm “It’s lashing cats & fcuking dogs again”
* storm “Fcuk-sake, it’s pissing down”
* storm “That fcuking wind’ud cut right through ya bollox”
What about Typhoon Finbar ?
Or maybe perhaps some more enlightened titles might include,
* storm “that fcuking trampoline has blown into next doors poxy garden again”
* storm “what the fcuk happened to the pisssing summer this year?”
* storm “I’d love to shove this weather right-up Al cunntting Gore’s stinking arsewhole”
Hopefully it won’t be any dubs or it’ll be storm “Amo”"Anto”"Kato”
Better than if the culchies had their way, “Réaiailteaíne”, ” Caioillainne”, “Cranncobhaire”
You ok, Dylo? Or is it Dreino?
For a couple of years there it was Dyldo, the kids can be so cruel.
Quite an active imagination you have there!
Toolo !
Alan b ( or your other A/c Neenee ) no articles to troll on the. 42 this morning ?? Or are you just hiding in here cause you were exposed as a double accounted Troll last week !
Haha DANNO it was a joke.although storm Danno does have a ring to it
Darude – Sandstorm
Hurricane BERTIE , destroys everything in sight for generations .
Ditto Kenny, Burton etc
My parents-in- law already named the storm in my life, I don’t need any more.
I wonder if anyone names their daughter Katrina now in New Orleans.
We could give storms pet names like Spot or Fluffy =D
Storms are always named after women because when they come they’re wet and wild but when they leave they take the car and the house with them!
I’ll never forget the year of the terrible Storm Tayto. Many a livelihood torn to pieces.
And that new wooden roller coaster of theirs was burnt to a crisp.
I’ve named almost a dozen cats in my lifetime and am up for a new challenge.
Yeah, but you just keep the same name and add a number to the end of it – so you’re not the most creative at coming up with names.
https://youtu.be/YkVWccmK48U?t=16
Not true. I do have a Bowsy II and a Kofi II at present, but the other seven all have previously unused names.
Storm Varoufakis:
Blows in with a lot of hot wind, creates chaos, leaves a massive mess for others to clean up.
Storm Denis O’Brien:
Transatlantic blower, takes whatever it feels like, contributes nothing of its own.
Storm Irish Water
Provides surprisingly little water, but it does charge you €20/month
Yawn – change the record, loser. This is a lighthearted article about storm names – take your boring rabble elsewhere.
I think we can learn a lot from the Scottish after they had Hurricaine Bawbag
I want to name her Dotty after my wife. She is a life sucking ***** from which there is no escape
@John Doyle.. Not nice, nor funny!
It’s from Armageddon…
Always amused me how Americans called insanely dangerous hurricanes by friendly names – “Hurricane Charlie” and “Hurricane Francis”. Etc
It’s never “hurricane big nasty b@$tard” or “hurricane you gonna dieeeeeee bi@ches!!
We will need a lot of names.
Stop the press, isn’t this what we’ve all secretly wanted all along. Protests and disenfranchisement ends today. Praise the Lord…
Allahu akbar!
Hurricane Mother in Law – arrives without warning leaving a trail of destruction in her path….
‘Well everybody remembers Storm Enda last month, we’ll there’s another one coming and people have again voted to call it Enda!’. It could remove the need for opinion polls…….
I think Fine Gael would be quite apt!!!
In a teacup
“In a Tea Cup”
‘Joan’. Self explanatory
More bollocks!
Big Bad Wolf
name them after FG ministers depending on how much damage they’ve done to the country
Scrambles. Scrambles the death dealer
Delighted to hear this is being rolled out across the country after a successful pilot scheme here in Mayo. The great ‘Storm Mary Massacre’ when there was the severe winds in February and of course ‘Storm This our year’ storm in April which came in from the Atlantic quicker than Philly McMahon slicing through the Mayo defence.
why not use a list of names like America does.
Why copy America on everything?
Imagine how many people named Katrina feel awkward in the US.
Because we do be copying everything else dah
Global warming?
Can’t have helped Katrina & the Waves sales!
How about a double name-Charlie and Bertie!
Storm rare pepe
What about storm enda….
Comes into the country causes havoc and leaves a bloody mess behind
Don’t mind him he is from Mayo
All that the Irish are left to ask is to name the storms. While the whole country is asking and protesting to abolish the unjustified water charges and the refugee Crisis but it’s going on deaf ears.
Joan, Enda, Howlin, Hogan, Reilly, Covney, Noonam and the big one Merkel?
How about for a particularly bad storm ” Oh Shit look what’s coming.
Oliver Klozoff
Ivor Biggin…
Wait.. What? There’ll be a Hurricane “Two-faced, lying, pencil dicked, tight-fisted, mammy’s boy”?? Deadly!
The Bastille??
cango chris because he plays pool like a hurricane and his nickname is cango, which causes a lot of damage
hurricane cango chris, because he plays pool like a hurricane and his nickname is cango, which causes a lot of damage
Why didn’t we get this option years ago .id call them FF , fG ,LABOUR we might some prior warning then lol
Storm animal, the incredible
The next biggie should be Walter!! As in Walter Palmer, after the guy who also reeks havoc on nature!!
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