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Alexander Macklin

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Expedition: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Author: Alexander Hepburne Macklin (1890 - 1967)
Date of article: 28/Oct/1915 - 19/Nov/1916

Reference number: 1588; BJ

Alexander Macklin was the doctor aboard Shackleton's Endurance Expedition.
Macklin begins his diary after the ship is abandoned and a camp is made on the ice.
The diary entries shown describe the journey to Elephant Island.