South Pole

University of New South Wales POWER POLE FAILURE AND BUSH FIRE NEAR CAPE NATURALISTE LIGHTHOUSE DUNSBOROUGH WESTERN AUSTRALIA ON 14 FEBRUARY 2009 Assignment report Name: Manni Zeng Student No.: 3286654 2 Content 1. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................. 3 1.1 Time and Date of Occurrence ...................................................................... 3 1.2 Incident Location ...................

was known as “heroic.” Klug said in his article “Anyone who has heard of his heroic exploits.” Ken Klug was among a group of people who retraced Shackleton’s steps. The location that this adventure was reinvented in Georgia known as the “Crossing South Georgia in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton.” When Shackleton first Crossed Georgia it was in the late fall during November in 1916. Klug starts his article off with “I am an unabashed admirer of Sir Ernest Shackleton.” This is just one example

The play Terra Nova opens with the protagonist Captain Robert Falcon Scott, trying to write a letter to the public. However, Scott was having difficulty to do so, as he’s too weak and weary, he seems to have suffered from frostbites in his hand but he continues to write, speaking his words out loud. At the same time Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer also enters the stage, introducing Scott to the members of the Royal Society, who gathered together in honored of him. Amundsen ' introduction of

Afghanistan’s giant Buddha was restored A Chinese couple insistently tried to do something meaningful for the conflicts countries with courage. Introduction: The Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan has been restored by 3D light projection technology by Xinyu Zhang’s work team. One Sunday night, in the moment when the giant Buddha was raised up after fourteen years of laying destroyed in front of around 200 locals, everyone was cheering up and gazing over the Buddhas, as the Bamiyan can see their hope again

give us an insight to who he really was. I will show that he had the skills necessary to be consider one of the great leaders of his time. Ernest was known as an explorer and he was honored with Knighthood. He wanted to be the first to reach the South Pole, but R. Amundsen conquered it before Shackleton; in spite of two prior attempts. He was confident in his abilities but was unsettled in many aspects of life. He was always looking for a better or faster way of doing things. He controlled his moods

already been to two different expeditions going to the Antarctic. The first one was when he went with the National Antarctic Expedition, the leader of that was by Robert F. Scott. The second voyage was when he traveled with three companions to go to the Pole, but because of the shortage of food, they had to turn back. This time was going to plan an expedition to cross the Antarctic all the way by foot. Shackleton was an incredible, born leader, who came up with this wild idea. Shackleton started getting

who live in Antarctica need winter coats a company looking to exceed their average profit would not expand to Antarctica since few people live there. A coat company is more likely to expand their company to Greenland since it is closer to the north pole and more people live there than Antarctica. Knowing the climate of an area, for a winter coat company is important in order to insure the company only expands to where people will purchase winter coats. Not only are businesses able to maximize their

goals. Robert Peary is a great example of this. On April 6, 1909, Peary conquered the world and achieved his lifetime goal of reaching the top of the world, the North Pole. He prepared for this goal all of his life, through school and work after college. He did much research and took many voyages to explore. He did not reach the Pole on his first try, but he persevered. After many long journeys and great challenges, he finally achieved his goal and made his mark on the world. We should work just as

Topic 3 Was Shackleton’s expedition a success or a failure? Why? Was Shackleton himself a success or failure for the expedition? Back up your answers using examples from the novel. Body Paragraph #1 – Expedition the expedition was a success because altho the team did not get to map out antarctica they got to see it with there own eyes and without that information we wouldn't know as much about the antarctic as we do today. from the novel BUt on the other hand the expedition was a failure because

In December of 2002, Lynne Cox completed an unthinkable challenge. The challenge itself was only 1.06 miles and lasted twenty-five minutes, which doesn’t seem like a long time but for her it lasted a decade. Cox wrote an autobiography about her journey titled Swimming to Antarctica. Within Cox’s book she relives the phenomenon at which she faced the frigid unknown. That one day Cox would put everything she had into a dream only she could possibly achieve due to her physical and mental stability