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H.M.S Endurance
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World.
Term | Definition |
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Antartica | Continent around the South Pole; a plateu coverd by a great ice cap and mountain peaks. |
H.M.S. Endurance | A ship in which sailed to the Antartic. |
Frostbite | To affect or injure by frost or frostbite. |
Mutiny | Forcible or passive resistance to laweful authority; espacially: concerted revolt against discipline or a superior officer. |
Evacuation | Something evacuated or discharged. |
Ice Pack | An expanse of pack ice. |
Ice Floe | A ussaully large flat free mass of floating sea ice. |
Navigate | To travel by water. |
Latitude | Angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference. |
Longitude | Long duration |
Scurvy | A disease caused by lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes. |
Shackleton, Sir Ernest | British polar explorer. |
Gale | A strong current of air |
Indispensable | Not subject to being set aside or neglected |
sextant | an instrument for measuring anguler distance |
chronemeter | one designed to keep time with great accuracy |
compass | to get into ones possesion or power |
skipper | Any of various erraticlly active insects( such as click beetles or a water strider). |
antiscorbutic | counteracting scurvy |
expidition | a journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose. |
epilogue | A cuncluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work. |
tiller | one that tills |