Trinity College Dublin Association – Cambridge Branch Spring Event 2018
The Trinity College Dublin Association & Trust – Cambridge Branch will host their annual spring event on Saturday the 17th of March 2018 in Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Ticket are priced at £35 per person. The event will commence with a drinks reception at 12pm in the Combination Room, followed by lunch at 12.45pm.
At 2pm, there will be a talk by Jonathan Shackleton FRGS in the Gatsby Room entitled
A Dead Man’s Friend: penguins, a priest and polar people
To register for this event, please RSVP by 7th March 2018 to Alan Beal-Forbes by email at alanbealforbes@yahoo.co.uk or by phone 012 7979 2504.
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About the Speaker: Jonathan Shackleton, cousin of the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, graduated from Trinity College Dublin in Natural Sciences, and was awarded his Masters Degree from Ohio State University for work in Arctic Alaska. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, a Member of the British Antarctic Survey Club and a Member of the James Caird Society. As a lecturer and guide, Jonathan has accompanied 43 groups on trips to the Antarctic in the past 20 years as historian, guide, photographer and Zodiac driver.
Highlights of his visits have been landing on the godforsaken Elephant Island at Point Wild, visiting Ernest Shackleton's grave on South Georgia, travelling to the Ross Sea, landing at Cape Adare, visiting two of the largest Emperor penguin colonies in the world, and being a member of the first group to visit the Emperor penguin colony at Snow Hill in the Weddell Sea.
Some of the classics of polar literature have been published by Penguin Books. In his talk, Jonathan Shackleton will give an introduction to Antarctica, and explain how good polar writing enables many to visit this otherwise inaccessible place.