Albert Armitage
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Albert Borlase Armitage (born 1864 in Balquhidder, Perthshire; died 31 October 1943) was a Scottish explorer of the Antarctica.
The Captain of the Royal Navy was first a member of the Jackson-Harmsworth-Expedition. This expedition was started, to find out, if Franz-Josef-Land belongs to Antarctica. But they found Fridtjof Nansen and his men, saving them from sure death.
He was then Robert Falcon Scott's navigator and second-in-command on the Discovery-Expedition to the Antarctica. Other members were Ernest Henry Shackleton, George Mulock, Edward Adrian Wilson, Charles Royds, Frank Wild, Koettlitz, Skelton, Heald, Barne, Plumley, Quartley, Weller, Hare, Allen, Evans, Ferrar, Hodgson, Louis Bernacchi, Vince.
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