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Departure of the British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, New Zealand, 1st January, 1908.

0.0 1908 8mU
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Footage of the expedition leaving Antarctica from New Zealand shot by government cameraman James McDonald. His excellency Admiral Sir Wilmot Hawksworth Fawkes, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy's Australian Station, visits and inspects the "Nimrod."

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Departure of the British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, New Zealand, 1st January, 1908. still 1
Departure of the British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, New Zealand, 1st January, 1908. still 2
Departure of the British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, New Zealand, 1st January, 1908. still 3
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Wilmot FawkesSelf
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest ShackletonSelf
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