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3 unusual facts about Louis Bernacchi


Louis Bernacchi

He joined Carstens Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition (1898–1900) which wintered at Cape Adare, Antarctica, joining the expedition in New Zealand after the previous physicist candidate had been rejected on medical grounds.

He was again a physicist on the Discovery expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott (1901–1904).

Bernacchi wrote a number of books on the Antarctic including a biography of Lawrence Oates called A Very Gallant Gentleman published in 1933 and Saga of the Discovery in 1938.



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