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[Explorers around flag planted at Magnetic South Pole]

Shows from left: Alistair McKay, Edgeworth David and Douglas Mawson, members of Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition which reached the magnetic South Pole on the 16th January, 1909.

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Date(s): 1909

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