William Lashly
William Lashly (born December 25, 1867 in Hambledon , Hampshire , England, † June 12, 1940 , ibid) was a British polar explorer.
Life
Lashly went to school until he was 13 years old, before initially working with his father as a roofer and later as a civil servant. After he had joined the Royal Navy in 1889 , where he eventually served as chief stoker on the HMS Duke of Wellington , he took part in Robert Falcon Scott's first Antarctic voyage , the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904). During this research trip, Lashly was involved in several exploratory marches in the target area.
After having worked as an instructor at the Royal Naval College, Osborne , he also took part in Scott's Terra Nova expedition . There he belonged to one of several support groups that enabled Scott and four companions to advance to the geographic South Pole . After reaching a south latitude of 87 ° 32 ′ on the polar plateau, Lashly returned to the base camp on Ross Island together with Tom Crean and Edward Evans as the last support group . On the way back, Evans contracted life-threatening scurvy . About 50 km south of the base camp, Lashly stayed with him in a tent on the Ross Ice Shelf , while Crean rushed alone to the Hut Point Peninsula for help on a two-day forced march . Through this measure Lashly and Crean were able to ensure the survival of Evans and were awarded the Albert Medal for this.
At the end of this expedition, Lashly quit his service with the Royal Navy, but reported to the reservists. During the First World War he served successively on the warships HMS Irresistible and HMS Amethyst . After the war ended, Lashly was employed by British Customs in Cardiff . He retired in 1932 and then lived in a house in his native Hambledon, which he named Minna Bluff after a cape in Antarctica .
The Lashly Glacier and Lashly Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land are named after Lashly .
literature
- AR Ellis (Ed.): Under Scott's Command: Lashly's Antarctic Diaries . Gollancz, London, 1969
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard : The World's Worst Trip . (Original version: The Worst Journey in the World, 1922) Semele Verlag, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-938869-04-6
- Roland Huntford : Scott and Amundsen. Dramatic battle for the South Pole. Heyne, Munich, 2000 ISBN 3453177908
- Diana Preston: To the icy death. Robert F. Scott's last trip to the South Pole . Heyne, Munich, 2nd edition, 2002 ISBN 3453197135
Web links
- William Lashly , short biography on the homepage of the Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lashly, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British polar explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hambledon , Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1940 |
| Place of death | Hambledon , Hampshire |