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Dive to the wreck of Quest
A team of marine researchers have taken the first ever photographs of the wreck of Shackleton’s last ship Quest, 1000 feet down in the Labrador Sea. Quest Chronicle author Jan Chojecki was on the “2026 Heroic Age Expedition”, a partnership between the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). On…
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Quest and Meteorology
Article in the Spotlight of the Royal Meteorological Society “Complete hourly observations while on ship. Take evidence of rainfall, prevalent winds and take continuous records of temperatures and pressure by self-recording instruments. Make a study of upper air currents by pilot balloons; this is of vital importance to the advancement of aviation. …….Click here to…
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Quest’s colour photographs
One of the fine colour photographs (autochromes) taken by George Hubert Wilkins on the Quest expedition forms the backdrop to the permanent display of the Hope Cross at the Discovery Point centre in Dundee. Until recently, the Hope Cross stood atop the memorial cairn erected in May 1922 to the late Sir Ernest Shackleton by…
