EXPLORER HONORED

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1933, Page 8

EXPLORER HONORED

ERNEST SHACK LETON’S GRAVE.

PRIEST VISITS LONELY SPOT.

A burial service performed over the grave of Sir Ernest SliackJeton, the famous Antarctic explorer, in the ldfiely British Sotith Atlantic , island fpt >: ' : South Georgia' more than ten years after his death there, is described in 'a letter received by the Daily . Mail from the Very Rev. Harold E. Lumsdale', Dean of Stanley, Falkland Islands. * Sir Ernest Shackleton died on board the Quest at Sdutli Georgia on January 5, 1922, four, months after sailing from London on his fourth expedition the Antarctic. Mr Lumsdale took up his present post in February, 1932, and -this, district includes the South -Georgia, South Shetland, South Orkney, and South Sandwich Islands,, and any .British possession southward to the South Pole. Mr Lumsdale writes:—“ln December I crossed the South Atlantic in a trawler, some 850 miles, to.minister in South Georgia. No priest had visited there before, and - since Shackleton had only been buried by a layman I felt it my duty to say the. Office Tor the Dead, and added the words of committal. -

. “On Saturday, December 17, at five in the. afternoon, we-, sefc out; for- the grave.- Large numbers of the whalers, Norwegian as well as English, were there. The sun "wag shining .IjjSglWtyF 6p the lofty brown mountains,, which were ■streaked with snow for hundreds, of feet, for they are 6000 ft.. to 80Q0.’t high. The litile.' cemetery lies at the foot oi these mountains;, and Shackleton.’s grave Avith its stone stands . out from the Test..”