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Edgar Evans of Gower - South Pole Explorer 18 January 1912.

Rhianne Griffiths » Blog » » Edgar Evans of Gower - South Pole Explorer 18 January 1912.

2010-08-04
By: Rhianne Griffiths
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Scott Centenary

A hundred years ago in June, a Gower man sailed on a voyage from which he never returned. Not a rare occurrence sadly, as many graves in Gower churches testify. But this particular man was part of what has been described as 'one of the most heroic exploits of the British race'. He was of course Petty Officer Edgar Evans from Rhossili, who sailed from Cardiff in the Terra Nova on 15 June 1910, and was among the five men, including Captain Robert Falcon Scott , who stood at the South Pole on 18 January 1912, before all perished on the return journey to their base camp.

There are memorials to Edgar Evans in Rhossili church and in Swansea Museum. He is the subject of articles in Gower journals volumes 7, 44,and 45, and the Gower Society brought out an illustrated publication Edgar Evans of Gower in 2008. In similar format to the publications about Churches, Caves, and Castles of Gower, it is available in local shops or from the Gower Society Website .

This extract appears courtesy of The Gower Society.

Evans is also the subject of the book Swansea's Antartic Explorer, on sale at West Glamorgan Archives in the Civic Centre at 7.50.

Interesting images below: 'Scott's Expedition 1912' by Allan Hunter

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