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WOMAN WITH THE ICEBERG EYES: ORIANA F WILSON

“The expedition approached the Australian and New Zealand governments for contributions when they visited on their way south”

In his book 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, published in 2012, Chris Turney wrote about his discovery in the British Library of a memorandum written in 1913 by the President of the Royal Geographical Society, Lord Curzon, in which he records his discussions with the widows of Captain Robert F Scott and Dr Edward A Wilson about their husbands’ Antarctic journals.

These belonged to the widows and were written when Scott and Wilson were part of

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