Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Abernethy (explorer)


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:07, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Thomas Abernethy (explorer)
** ALT1:... that in 1831 Thomas Abernethy found that the Teletubbies had beaten him to be first to the North Magnetic Pole (pictured)? Source: illustration seems to be the only source
 * ... that in 1831 Thomas Abernethy was in James Clark Ross's party that was first to reach the North Magnetic Pole (pictured)? Source: (best but not online) Buchan, Alex R (2016). "A Grand Polar Veteran"; Thomas Abernethy. Page  77–78. Buchan Field Club. ISBN 0-9512736-5-5. and (online) Ross, John; Ross, James Clark (1835). Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage. Pages 556–560, 570. London, A.W. Webster.

Quotes from sources. "Thomas Abernethy ... had been in the first party to reach the Magnetic North Pole", "It was James [Clark] Ross' intention, after leaving his uncle, to explore the coast further north and, more importantly, to seek out the North Magnetic Pole. ... At 8.00am. on June 1, 1831, Ross set up camp ... where ... on his dip-circle the reading was 89° 59'. Ross was satisfied that this was the magnetic pole. ... Ross shared the credit for the achievement with his party ... Now, in 1831, Thomas Abernethy ... was also a member of the party which was the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole". "It would not now be worth my [John Ross's] while too detail this our progress in the approximation to the magnetic pole, ... and this keystone of all our previous labours laid by the party, consisting chiefly of the mates Blanky and Abernethy, under the immediate orders of my successful nephew [James Clark Ross] ... it was the ship Victory, under the command of Captain John Ross, which assigned the north-west Magnetic Pole, in the year 1831,"




 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Isaac Kwame Asiamah

Created by Thincat (talk). Self-nominated at 16:09, 8 August 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg New, in time, long enough, sourced, hook checks out, no apparent copyvios, PD image is fine, QPQ done. --Usernameunique (talk) 02:10, 2 September 2017 (UTC)