Saturday 15th June, 11:00 - 16:00, RSGS HQ, Perth

Tickets are still available for this annual celebration of Geography. The theme is 'film, photos and funny animals', and speaking on the day we have:

🎥 Eilidh Munro talking about a documentary film expedition she's just been on to the Amazon...

📸 Lorne Gill, SNH Staff Photographer, giving tips on how to take the perfect Scottish photograph...!

🖊 Our Writer-in-Residence, Jo Woolf, discussing some intriguing glass slides the Society have recently happened across...

🔎 And our in-house Collections Team giving insight into a range of peculiar maps and photos...!

So, what are you waiting for, get your tickets now!

Written by Jo Woolf, Writer-in-Residence

"Shackleton held audiences in the palm of his hand as he described horrifying dangers and deprivations."

Just after 5 pm on 14th June 1909, a train from Dover pulled up at Charing Cross Station and one of the world’s most famous polar explorers stepped onto the platform. Ernest Shackleton, a newly-returning hero, had spent the best part of the last two years in the Antarctic. Sailing on board the Nimrod, he had discovered and named the Beardmore Glacier in honour of his sponsor, the rich businessman William Beardmore of Glasgow; he had made the first ascent of Mount Erebus, the world’s most southerly active volcano; and he had made excursions into hitherto unknown territory on the South Polar Plateau. Although the South Pole had eluded him, he had achieved a new ‘Furthest South’ of 88° 23’, just 97 miles from the Pole. With his optimism and leadership he had managed to maintain a sense of camaraderie among a diverse group of men, some of whom had joined the expedition on a last-minute whim. And they had all come home alive.