SOME RESULTS OF THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC 
EXPEDITION, 1907-9.¢ 
[With 6 plates and 38 maps. ] 
By E. H. SHACKLETON, C. V. O. 
The British Antarctic expedition, 1907-9, left Port Lyttelion, New 
Zealand, on January 1, 1908, for the south. In this article I will not 
attempt to deal in detail with the preliminary arrangements and with 
the equipment. The amount of money at my disposal had been lim- 
ited, and economies had been necessary in various directions; but I 
had been able to get together a small body of well-qualified men, and 
we were fully equipped as far as food, clothing, sledges, etc., were 
concerned. We had a motor car, ponies, and dogs for haulage pur- 
poses. The generosity of the admiralty in lending the expedition a 
number of instruments enabled me to make the scientific equipment 
fairly complete. The Nimrod, in which the journey to the winter 
quarters on the Antarctic Continent had to be undertaken, was cer- 
tainly small for the work, and left Lyttelton with scarcely 3 feet of 
freeboard, a somewhat serious matter in view of the fact that very 
heavy weather had to be faced. On the other hand, the ship was 
very sturdy, well suited to endure rough treatment in the ice. 
The shore party consisted of fifteen men, my companions being as 
follows: 
Lieut. J. B. Adams, R. N. R., meteorologist. 
Bertram Armytage, in charge of ponies. 
Sir Philip Brocklehurst, assistant geologist. 
Prof. T. W. Edgeworth David, F. R. S., geologist. 
Bernard Day, electrician and motor expert. 
Ernest Joyce, in charge of general stores, dogs, sledges, and zoolog- 
ical collections. | 
Dr. A. F. Mackay, surgeon. 
Dr. Eric Marshall, surgeon, cartographer. 
G. E. Marston, artist. 
“Reprinted by permission from The Geographical Journal, London, vol. 34, 
No. 5, November, 1909. 
