Carsten E. Borchgrevink, Southern Cross - Crew
British Antarctic Expedition 1898 - 1900

Southern Cross in the Derwent, 1898
picture courtesy - Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.

Experienced ice navigator and hunter, born 1877

Born and educated in Tasmania, later joining the Melbourne Observatory as a student where he gained the specialist knowledge in magnetism that led to his being appointed to Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition in 1898.

He was a very late recruit to the Discovery expedition, being appointed as physicist only after the original candidate had been rejected on medical grounds. He did not join the expedition until the Discovery had reached New Zealand.

Hugh Blackwall Evans (23) - Assistant Zoologist, British - wintered

Born 1874 - Aylburton, Gloucestershire England. 23 at time of the expedition.

Hanson was to have the unwanted distinction of being the first known death on the Antarctic continent on the 14th of October 1899, he had been ill since July with what is thought to be beriberi.

Born 1850

Experienced engineer and boilermaker. Professional engineer at Jensen and Dahl shipbuilding yard, Friedrikstad, Norway at the time of appointment to the expedition.

Professional engineer at Jensen and Dahl shipbuilding yard, Friedrikstad, Norway at the time of appointment to the expedition.

Born 1877 "well known for his faithful character, hardihood and intelligence."

Born 1877, like Savio, an experienced snow-shoe runner.