Entries by Gérald Morales

A Real Feat of Endurance

You’re never too young to set off on a voyage of discovery! Just look at what Arthur Kinniburgh-Duke, aged 9, has achieved. Arthur, grandson of former Dinner Secretary Andy Kinniburgh, recently completed constructing, on his own, this magnificent Lego model of Endurance. To mark his completion of the model, he was given a photo of the […]

Society Dinners

The 2022 AGM and Dinner took place at Dulwich College on Friday 11 November.  Dinner was preceded by a fascinating account of the search for Endurance in 2019 (Weddell Sea Expedition) culminating in the Endurance22 expedition in February/March 2022. The latter was under the auspices of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust. The lecture was given […]

It’s almost time to decide on the shackleton award …

The purpose of The Shackleton Award is to honour outstanding expedition achievements and to inspire today’s explorers to new expeditions into unknown territories or conditions. The award will be given annually to an expedition found to be ‘real and novel, un-motorized and within polar areas or conditions’.  You have until 15th JANUARY 2017 to make your nomination.  […]

Film premiere of South 2015: an Antarctic voyage to remember

1900 Wednesday 14 June 2017 Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR £14 A spectacular and moving film about the work done to commemorate Britons who lost their lives in British Antarctic Territory gets its first showing at a special event introduced by Polar explorer, Felicity Aston MBE. The British Antarctic Monument Trust created […]