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T W Bagshawe
Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe (18 April 1901 – 1974) was an explorer, museum curator and folklorist. Early life Bagshawe was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, on 18 April 1901, and attended Rugby School before reading geology at University of Cambridge, Cambridge University. Graham Land Expedition In 1920, Bagshawe left his studies to take up an opportunity to join the British Graham Land Expedition to Antarctica, to continue mapping the western coastline of the Weddell Sea. It was a small expedition, made up of only four men and with no ship (their voyage was reliant on Norwegian whaling ships). The expedition arrived in the Antarctic in January 1921, but due to ice blocking their passage through the Antarctic Sound, they did not arrive at their desired location. A scaling back of the expedition's plans resulted, so much so that the expedition's leader, John Lachlan Cope, and the second-in-command, Hubert Wilkins, left in February 1921 (planning to return in 1922 and restart the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunstable
Dunstable ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, east of the Chiltern Hills, north of London. There are several steep chalk escarpments, most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the north. Dunstable is the fourth largest town in Bedfordshire and along with Houghton Regis forms the westernmost part of the Luton/Dunstable Urban Area. Etymology In Ancient Rome, Roman times there was a minor settlement called Durocobrivis in the area now occupied by modern-day Dunstable. There was a general assumption that the nominative form of the name had been Durocobrivae, so that is what appears on the map of 1944 illustrated Dunstable#History, below. But current thinking is that the form ''Durocobrivis'', which occurs in the Antonine Itinerary, is a fossilised locative that was used all the time and Ordnance Survey now uses this form. There are several theories concerning its modern name: *Legend tells that the lawlessness of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
