Departure of the British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, New Zealand, 1st January, 1908.

Overview

Footage of the expedition leaving Antarctica from New Zealand shot by government cameraman James McDonald. His excellency Admiral Sir Wilmot Hawksworth Fawkes, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy's Australian Station, visits and inspects the "Nimrod."

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Wilmot Fawkes

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Ernest Shackleton

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