Edward Adrian Wilson

Edward Adrian Wilson (* July 23, 1872 in Cheltenham, † March 29, 1912, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica ) was an English polar explorer, physician and ornithologist.

Born and raised on the Crippetts farm near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, then he studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. There, the college flag is still preserved, which took Wilson to the South Pole.

Participants British Antarctic expeditions

Wilson was a participant of two British Antarctic expeditions. During the Discovery Expedition 1901-1904 led by Robert Falcon Scott on the Discovery, he worked as a physician and zoologist. Ernest Shackleton asked him to participate in his Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) also, but what Wilson refused.

However, Wilson was a participant of the Terra Nova expedition, Scott once again set off to Antarctica in 1910 and was responsible for the scientific part. He was one of five men who reached the South Pole on 18 January 1912. All five died during their return.

Wilson was raised in a religion is strong, the atmosphere, and he retained until his death in a spiritual joy and serenity that could be him during his participation in the Antarctic expeditions to the person to whom his comrades turned when they needed encouragement. In the confrontation between Scott and Shackleton on alleged privilege questions to the conquest of the South Pole, he slapped his Scotts page. This resulted in the sequence to the split with his actual personal friend Shackleton.

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