Hello from McMurdo Station, Antarctica

[Chas]

Hello Craig,

Welcome to XMarks from the other side of the world in the middle of Thetford Forest in Norfolk, England.

Regards

Chas

[MacBean]

Perhaps one of the early (1921) Scots to go below was a young Boy Scout from Aberdeenshire, James Marr who was personally selected by Shackleton from among 1700 candidates to accompany him south.

http://www.scouting.milestones.btint...co.uk/marr.htm

I was close friends with his son as a child, and owe my interest in birds to him. His father became a zoologist, and expert on krill.

If you run into Olaf Oftadal, say hello from me. Don't know if he is still down there though.