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A letter from Ernest Shackleton to Captain Gordon, September 1902
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The letter is a general account of Shackleton's first winter spent in the Antarctic including details of finding McMurdo strait, his first sledge journey to White Island and of taking meteorological readings with Edward Wilson.
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