Polar & expedition maps
Map of Endurance’s drift through Antarctic waters
Historical recordA separately catalogued expedition or regional map; scale 1 : 7 500 000. It records historical cartographic knowledge, not evidence of hidden continents.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Original title
- Antarctic Regions : chart to illustrate the paper on the Drift of the "Endurance" by Lieut. J.M. Wordie R.F.A.
- Artifact date
- April 1918
- Publisher
- Royal Geographical Society (United Kingdom)
- Holding institution
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre
- Accession
- AADC map 3700
- Projection
- Not Given
- Scale
- 1 : 7 500 000
Scope of evidence
Evidence of an original historical map or manuscript, not evidence of hidden lands or a non-spherical Earth.
Catalog context
A physical copy of this map is on permanent loan from the Australian Antarctic Division to the National Library of Australia, where it is available for viewing.
Holding note
A physical copy of this map is on permanent loan from the Australian Antarctic Division to the National Library of Australia, where it is available for viewing.
Related historical map: Endurance’s voyage, ice drift and relief attempts, published in Shackleton’s South (1919). Not Wordie’s RGS 1918 sheet.
Stanford’s Geographical Establishment, The Voyage of the Endurance, in Ernest Shackleton, South (London: William Heinemann,1919), foldout after p.368. Internet Archive scan via Wikimedia Commons.
Different historical map of same voyage, not the target 1918 RGS Wordie chart. Use only as clearly labeled supporting/context image; retain original record link and hold for exact scan.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
Public Domain Mark 1.0; Commons explicitly PD-old-70-expired and US pre 1931 publication.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- image reproduction provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://archive.org/details/South00Shac
- image reuse conditionshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_-_the_story_of_Shackleton%27s_last_expedition,_1914-1917_-Map.jpg
- institutional or documentary recordhttps://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=3700
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