Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition (1934-1935)

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Associated Locale
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Field of Activity
(lcsh) Grant Land (Nunavut)--Discovery and exploration
(lcsh) Ellesmere Island (Nunavut)--Discovery and exploration
(lcsh) Greenland--Discovery and exploration

found: Shackleton, Edward Shackleton, Baron. Arctic journeys, 1937:title page (Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition, 1934-5) page iii (expedition of the Oxford Exploration Club) page 23 ("It is the unexplored territory known sometimes as Grant Land, between the eighty-first and eighty-third parallels, which is the main geographical object of the exploration.") page 31 ("The Expedition intends to spend a year in the country, from August 1934 till August 1935.") page 36 (party made up as follows: Dr. G.N. Humphreys--Leader, Surveyor and Botanist; Edward Shackleton--Organiser and Surveyer; A.W. Moore--Photographer and Biologist; Sergeant H.W. Stallworthy, R.C.M.P.--Expert on Arctic Travel; Robert Bentham--Geologist; D. Haig-Thomas--Ornithologist) pages 321-323 (July 17, 1934: sailed from St. Katharine's Dock, London in a Norwegian sealer, the Signalhorn; August 21-October 11, 1935: Return journey on the schooner Dannebrog. The party finally reached Barra in the Outer Hebrides on October 11)