“But alas! Firemen [stoking a ship] are not what they were. The gor-blimey firemen of the coal-burning days must, I think, be a diminishing species and in these degenerate times, when ships burn oil, the firemen is rapidly becoming a perfect gentleman, which is a pity …. Yet all was not quite lost in 1932, since one of them, … finding an altercation with the cook becoming beyond his powers of argument, upheld tradition and ‘drew him off a Burton.’ In other words, he knocked him out for the count.” FiremanShipWhaling1932AntarcticPolar Research Author:F. D, Ommanney
“I have never seen an aurora. They happen in the arctic and antarctic circles normally, close to the north and south poles.” SouthCirclesArcticCloseAuroraHappenNorthPolesAntarcticNever Seen Author:Steven Magee
“In broad terms, we are trying to find the Endurance so that she might be protected into the future, when conservation science will have advenced sufficiently for a responsible body to consider raising her remains for preservation and public display.” InspirationalScienceSouth PoleAntarctic Book:The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance Source: The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance