A Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer

A Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer is a descriptive listing of sites of Antarctic interest outside of the Antarctic (defined here as above the Antarctic Circle), places that have some association with the exploration of the South Polar Regions. The focus is clearly on the Heroic Age (the late 19th-early 20th century), which reflects my own particular interests. Sites associated with Scott and Shackleton and their colleagues are especially well represented. The first version of A Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer appeared in three instalments in the newsletter of The Antarctican Society (Vol. 93-94, Nos 3-5). In 1994, I issued a revised version in pamphlet form. Two slightly revised editions have appeared since then. Beginning in March of 1996, I started posting to Pollib-l, the Polar Libraries Colloquy listserv, a site or two on a close to a weekly basis. What appears below are these "episodes," with occasional corrections, in the order in which they have been posted (and with the dates). The number(s) in parentheses refer to the database I maintain which now exceeds 700 entries.

--Robert B. Stephenson

Click here for an index of persons & places appearing in episodes of A Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer.

Click here for a listing--by site number, site name/description, site location and, if appropriate, the LLAG Episode Number--of Low-Latitude sites included in my database.

TABLE OF CONTENTS TO EPISODES POSTED TO DATE TO POLLIB-L:

Episode 1 : A church memorial to Cherry-Garrard and his home. 30 March 1996

Episode 2 : A Byrd item at Loon Mountain, New Hampshire. 6 April 1996

Episode 3 : A Scott plaque at Chatham, Kent. 16 April 1996

Episode 4 : L. E. G. Oates' London house. 20 April 1996

Episode 5 : The site of the Washington, D.C. house of Charles Wilkes. 27 April 1996

Episode 6 : A Scott sledge that came in handy in Dunedin, New Zealand. 4 May 1996

Episode 7 : Some cows that headed south in 1933. 13 May 1996

Episode 8 : A memorial tablet in Bombay (and in Scotland). 18 May 1996

Episode 9 : The Navy Museum at the Washington Navy Yard. 27 May 1996

Episode 10 : A Scott memorial obelisk in Norway. 1 June 1996

Episode 11 : The Estonian house of a famous Antarctic explorer. 8 June 1996

Episode 12 : The Connecticut house of (possibly) the first one to record seeing the Antarctic continent. 22 June 1996

Episode 13 : The E. A. Wilson statue (and house) in Cheltenham. 29 June 1996

Episode 14 : Some Antarctic sites in Lyttelton, New Zealand. 7 July 1996

Episode 15 : The grave of a famous dog. 13 July 1996

Episode 16 : Some sledging flags. 26 July 1996

Episode 17 : Selborne's Oates Memorial Museum. 3 August 1996

Episode 18 : Three other Terra Nova artifacts. 11 August 1996

Episode 19 : Chinook Kennels, Wonalancet, New Hampshire. 17 August 1996

Episode 20 : An Ohio monument to the originator of the Theory of Concentric Spheres and Polar Voids. 25 August 1996

Episode 21 : The New Zealand grave of a skillful carpenter. 1 September 1996

Episode 22 : A bust in Ballarat. 8 September 1996

Episode 23 : Lincoln Ellsworth's Polar Star. 15 September 1996

Episode 24 : An Heroic Age monument in Japan. 27 September 1996

Episode 25 : A Scott memorial at Port Chalmers, NZ. 5 October 1996

Episode 26 : 'Uranienborg,' Roald Amundsen's house. 25 October 1996

Episode 27 : Another Wilkes memorial in Washington. 9 November 1996

Episode 28 : Some of the many items at the Canterbury Museum. 22 November 1996

Episode 29 : The James Caird--A remarkable voyage 80 years ago. 28 November 1996

Episode 30 : Some Antarctic treasures at the Royal Geographical Society. 7 December 1996

Episode 31 : An update to Episode 3 -- A Scott Plaque in Chatham, Kent. 22 December 1996

Episode 32 : An update to Episode 10 -- A Scott memorial obelisk in Norway. 27 December 1996

Episode 33 : A Frank Wild memorial plaque. 5 January 1997

Episode 34 : The Great Navigator's bi-hemispheral boyhood home. 18 January 1997

Episode 35 : A hill-top memorial in Wellington. 24 January 1997

Episode 36 : A grave in the Falklands. 1 February 1997

Episode 37 : Some sites associated with C.P.O. Edgar Evans. 12 February 1997

Episode 38 : A pub--and more--in Anascaul, Kerry, Eire. 22 February 1997

Episode 39 : A statue and graves of note in Arlington, Va. 3 March 1997

Episode 40 : Some Tasmanian sites of interest. 9 March 1997

Episode 41 : A baobab tree in the Cape Verde Islands! 22 March 1997

Episode 42 : Some sites associated with Captain James Weddell. 6 April 1997

Episode 43 : Some odds 'n ends in New York City--The Explorers Club. 12 April 1997

Episode 44 : Some odds 'n ends in New York City--American Museum of Natural History. 4 May 1997

Episode 45a : Some updates & corrections, Part I: An update to Episode 29: The James Caird--A remarkable voyage 80 years ago. 26 May 1997

Episode 45b : Some updates & corrections, Part I: An update to Episode 39: A statue and graves of note in Arlington, Va. 26 May 1997

Episode 46a : Some updates & corrections, Part II: An update to Episode 18: Some notes on the history of the Terra Nova. 15 June 1997

Episode 46b : Some updates & corrections, Part II: A correction to Episode 42: James Weddell and his seal. 15 June 1997

Episode 47 : Memento mori...Nathaniel Brown Palmer, et al. 21 June 1997

Episode 48 : Some Shackleton abodes. 29 June 1997

Episode 49 : Two Parisian sites. 27 July 1997

Episode 50 : A Cook memorial in Cambridge, England (and Episode 16 redux). 1 October 1997

Episode 51 : An update to Episode 48--Some Shackleton abodes. 18 November 1997

Episode 52 : Some sites on a recent trip, Part I, Philadelphia. 11 November 1997

Episode 53 : Some sites on a recent trip, Part II, Annapolis. 5 December 1997

Episode 54 : Some sites on a recent trip, Part III, Winchester, Virginia. 13 December 1997

Episode 55 : Some sites gleaned on a recent trip, Part IV, Richmond & Newport News, Virginia. 20 December 1997

Episode 56 : A Shackleton statue in London. 9 January 1998

Episode 57 : Some recently visited English sites, Part I: Sir James Clark Ross. 8 March 1998

Episode 58 : Some recently visited English sites, Part II: A crypt-bound crow's-nest. 21 February 1998

Episode 59 : Some recently visited English sites, Part III: An Edward Wilson treasure trove in Cheltenham. 21 March 1998

Episode 60 : A little bit of Antarctica in Wyoming. 10 May 1998

Episode 61 : Two Lashly houses. 17 May 1998

Episode 62 : Oates in Gestingthorpe. 31 May 1998

Episode 63 : Sir Clements Markham: A house, a bust and a painting. 7 June 1998

Episode 64 : Dining with Savages. 4 August 1998

Episode 65 : A Scott house (or two). 23 August 1998

Episode 66 : A rock finds a new home--for now. 4 September 1998

Episode 67 : London's Waterloo Place--a hotbed of polar activity. 31 October 1998

Episode 68 : Byrd Watching in Ohio. 7 November 1998

Episode 69 : Another Ohio Site--Lincoln Ellsworth's grave. 11 November 1998

Episode 70 : A site or two far to the south. 23 January 1999

Episode 71 : Two 'furthest south' museums (and a stone hut and a burying ground as well). 17 February 1999

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A Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazetteer premiered: August 14, 1996.
Last updated: January 23, 2006. I'd appreciate knowing of additional "low-latitude" sites of Antarctic interest. Also, any corrections or elaborations on those entries above. Thanks.