{"id":2236,"date":"2022-03-10T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2022-03-10T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T19:38:13","slug":"royal-geographical-society-archives-and-the-wreck-of-the-endurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/2022\/03\/10\/royal-geographical-society-archives-and-the-wreck-of-the-endurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Geographical Society Archives and the wreck of the Endurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We own the digitized archives of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rgs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Geographical Society<\/a>. It contains the <a href=\"https:\/\/app-wileydigitalarchives-com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca\/rgs\/collection-details?archive=RGS1&amp;id=SC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sir Ernest Shackleton Collection<\/a> (scroll down to find it). In this collection, you can view, for example, &#8220;Sketch map drawn on menu card to illustrate proposed journey across Antarctic continent, 7th March 1914,&#8221; or &#8220;Page torn from an almanac by Shackleton and carried by him for navigation purposes, 1915-16, from the sinking of the &#8216;Endurance&#8217; to Buenos Aires.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may want to recommend the RGS archive if you receive questions relating to this week&#8217;s discovery of the wreck of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/09\/ernest-shackleton-wrecked-ship-endurance-antarctic\" target=\"_blank\">Shackleton&#8217;s ship, the Endurance<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We own the digitized archives of the Royal Geographical Society. It contains the Sir Ernest Shackleton Collection (scroll down to find it). In this collection, you can view, for example, &#8220;Sketch map drawn on menu card to illustrate proposed journey across Antarctic continent, 7th March 1914,&#8221; or &#8220;Page torn from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/collections-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}