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	AllRefer.com - William Speirs Bruce (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		William Speirs Bruce[spirz] Pronunciation Key, 1867–1921, Scottish explorer and authority on the polar regions.
		Bruce established a meteorological station on Laurie Island (in the South Orkney group).
		Bruce made a number of voyages to Spitsbergen and became an authority on the islands.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bruce-Wi.html (234 words)

	William Speirs Bruce, Scotland, and polar meteorology and oceanography, VII International Congress
		William Speirs Bruce, Scotland, and polar meteorology and oceanography
		Bruce worked for Andrew Herbertson and H R Mill on meteorological data and for John Murray in the offices of the Challenger expedition.
		Bruce had become captivated by the prospects of doing science in polar environments but, unable to find funding for further exploration he gained employment at the meteorological station at the summit of Ben Nevis (itself in part another by-product of the Edinburgh International Fisheries Exhibition, 1882).
	vitiaz.ru /congress/en/thesis/85.html (1467 words)

	www.brucefamily.com - Family of Bruce International, Inc. - Bruce Biographies
		Educated in England and France, Thomas Bruce succeeded to the Earldoms of Elgin and Kincardine in 1771, entered the army in 1785, and was successively envoy to the Holy Roman Empire, to Brussels, to Berlin and to the Ottoman Empire.
		Bruce served as Australian delegate to the League of Nations and in 1936 was president of the council.
		Eli Metcalfe Bruce, born near Flemingsburg, Ky., February 22, 1828, was not a soldier of the Confederacy, but was with the army on many battlefields and spent a fortune for the relief of the sick and disabled.
	www.brucefamily.com /biopage.htm (3148 words)

	Bruce \| William Speirs \| 1867-1921 \| polar explorer and oceanographer
		Bruce studied at Norfolk County School, before reading medicine at the University of Edinburgh, but gave up his studies in 1892, before he qualified as a doctor, in order to take part in a whaling expedition to the oceans surrounding the Falklands.
		Bruce also carried out ornithological work there, discovering new species of arctic bird, and discovering more about known species - he was, for example, the first to find chicks of the sanderling, on Spitsbergen.
		Bruce was influenced by James Cossar Ewart at the University of Edinburgh (1851-1933).
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0830.html (598 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: William S. Bruce
		William Bruce's love of oceanography continued to grow and his next opportunity for Antarctic research surfaced in 1900 when Robert Scott approached him to participate, as the naturalist, in the forthcoming DISCOVERY EXPEDITION.
		Bruce turned down the offer, not because of his tremendous Scottish pride, but rather for his lack of interest with any expedition in which the primary goal was to attain something as sensational as the South Pole.
		Bruce was a quiet, private man with his only passion being that of his scientific studies; public relations efforts were not his cup of tea.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000093.htm (2230 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Bruce
		Bruce BRUCE [Bruce] Scottish royal family descended from an 11th-century Norman duke, Robert de Brus.
		Bruce, William Speirs BRUCE, WILLIAM SPEIRS [Bruce, William Speirs], 1867-1921, Scottish explorer and authority on the polar regions.
		Bruce, Victor Alexander, 9th earl of Elgin BRUCE, VICTOR ALEXANDER, 9TH EARL OF ELGIN [Bruce, Victor Alexander, 9th earl of Elgin] see under Elgin, James Bruce, 8th earl of.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Bruce (644 words)

	Bruce — FactMonster.com
		The 5th Robert the Bruce was married to Isobel, second daughter of David, earl of Huntingdon, brother of the Scottish kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion.
		The son of that marriage, the 6th Robert the Bruce, was a claimant to the Scottish throne after the death of Margaret Maid of Norway in 1290.
		William Speirs Bruce - Bruce, William Speirs, 1867–1921, Scottish explorer and authority on the polar regions.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0809180.html (247 words)

	The scotia centenary – a celebration of the life and work of William Speirs Bruce, VII International Congress
		William Speirs Bruce was, until recently, Scotland’s forgotten polar hero.
		Bruce’s methodical scientific studies lacked the drama of the expeditions of his British contemporaries, Scott and Shackleton, and so faded from public recognition, a matter about which he became increasingly bitter: ‘It is good solid work that we want, not tales of suffering, privation and death’ (Bruce, 1911).
		A paper on Bruce’s contribution to polar science in general, and polar oceanography in particular, is presented elsewhere in this Congress (Swinney, in press).
	vitiaz.ru /congress/en/thesis/180.html (648 words)

	Disclaimer/Impressum for Bruces Wee Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bruce came to terms with Edward's son, Edward III, in 1328, and the arrangement was settled when England recognised Scotland as an independent kingdom, and Bruce's son, David, was married to Edward's sister, Joanna.
		Robert de Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale, 1210–1295, Scottish noble, one of the unsuccessful claimants to the throne at the death of Alexander II 1290.
		James Bruce, 1730-1794, a Scottish explorer, who discovered the source of the Blue Nile at Lake Tana in 1770, although he believed it to be the main source at the time.
	www.landshut.org /members/Bruce/menus/a-a-u.htm (5672 words)

	Rescue at last for Scots explorer \| Life \| Guardian Unlimited
		A prime motive of the centenary celebrations is to rescue Bruce from the oblivion to which he has been consigned, principally through the hostility of the leadership of the Royal Geo graphical Society in London.
		Piqued by Bruce's decision to launch a separate Scottish assault on Antarctica while the RGS-sponsored Captain Scott prepared his Discovery voyage, the society's secretary and then president Sir Clements Markham did his best to rubbish his reputation, even calling Bruce "an indolent charlatan".
		Such was Bruce's international prestige by the time he returned north that the opening ceremony at Drummond Street was performed, in January 1907, by Europe's most distinguished oceanographer, Prince Albert I of Monaco.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/feature/story/0,13026,1265900,00.html (922 words)

	Scotland and the Antarctic: Section 4: William Speirs Bruce - early exploration [ebook chapter] / James A. Goodlad, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		William Speirs Bruce was born in Kensington Gardens Square in London in 1867.
		Bruce's paternal grandfather came from Glasgow and his grandmother (Charity Isbister) came from the Orkney Islands.
		Bruce's father had a very successful medical practice in London - necessary in order to support his eight children, his sister and father, servants, nursemaids and coachmen.
	gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk /scotia/gooant/gooant04.htm (136 words)

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	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Scotland's polar hero remembered
		William Speirs Bruce ran one of the most successful expeditions during what has since become known as the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration.
		Bruce raised funds from the wealthy Coats family of Paisley, near Glasgow, and set off on the voyage he dubbed the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.
		The composer said Bruce had become bitter to some extent at being overlooked for the Discovery expedition and he had tried to capture the essence of how it must have felt to be so forgotten.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1972391.stm (934 words)

	The Globetrotters eNewsletter » Blog Archive » William Speirs Bruce, Scottish Antartica Explorer
		William Speirs Bruce, let’s call him Bruce, may not be as famous as other Antarctic explorers, such as Scott and Shackleton, but he certainly did his bit for Antarctic exploration!
		Bruce wanted a place on Britain's “Discovery” expedition - which was ultimately to be led by Scott, with Shackleton among the crew, but he was snubbed by the organisers, who took so long to make a decision on whether to include him or not, that Bruce made his own expedition.
		Bruce was actually an experienced whaler, and he had already been to Antartica and had spent almost a year at the meteorological station at the top of Ben Nevis, (cold, brrrr!) training himself in the methodology of recording weather and climate.
	www.globetrotters.co.uk /newsletter/archive/507 (455 words)

	Collector's Target: REFERENCE CATALOG: Postage Stamps & FDCs from British Antarctic Territory
		Bruce had hoped that Scotia could be used for further oceanographic work and training students of the Scottish Universities.
		Bruce was keen to continue this important meteorological work and he visited Buenos Aires after the winter.
		Bruce died in 1921 after a long illness and his ashes were scattered in the waters of Antarctica.
	www.collectorstarget.com /bat0204.html (2298 words)

	Overview of William Speirs Bruce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although born in London (England), Bruce was the son of a Scottish physician and came north to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
		Bruce was the leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-04), which discovered Coats Land, named in honour of the Paisley thread-manufacturing brothers who had funded the major part of the expedition.
		Bruce was a founder of the Scottish Ski Club and of Edinburgh Zoo, serving as first President of the former and first Vice President of the latter, under Edward Salvesen (1857 - 1942), with whom Bruce collaborated to bring penguins from the Antarctic.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst109.html (222 words)

	Het Laatste Continent - Geschiedenis van Antarctica - De Scotia-expeditie van William Speirs Bruce
		Bruce was het bovendien niet eens met het voornaamste doel van de Discovery-expeditie, namelijk de geografische zuidpool bereiken.
		Bruce besloot de winter door te brengen in een baai van het bergachtige Laurie Island dat deel uitmaakt van de South Orkney Islands.
		Hoewel Bruce zich ging toeleggen op de noordpool, bleef hij Antarctica in een warm hart toedragen.
	www.hetlaatstecontinent.be /geschiedenis/expedities/bruce_scotia.html (458 words)

	Bruce, William Speirs - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bruce, William Speirs, 1867-1921, Scottish explorer and authority on the polar regions.
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		THE FORGOTTEN SCOT OF THE ANTARCTIC; Campaign is under way to honour polar explorer William Bruce after 100 years of being in shadow of Scott and Shackleton.(Features)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bruce-wi.html (296 words)

	Scots salute explorer on thrilling Antarctic trip - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Dr Bruce, who was 35 when he set sail in the Scotia from Troon, Ayrshire, blazing the trail for the likes of Captain Scott, Shackleton and the Norwegian Amundsen in polar exploration and forming a Scottish National Antarctic Expedition after failing to be part of the 1901 British expedition.
		Unlike other explorers who simply wanted to be first to plant their country's flag on the South Pole, Bruce was a scientist whose work in the Antarctic led to many major discoveries on climate change and continental drift.
		At one stage during the voyage, the Scotia became trapped in ice in a treacherous area of the Southern Ocean.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5022186.shtml (569 words)

	Scotia expedition
		Bruce, although experienced at sea in whalers, did not have a master’s certificate.
		Papers of W.S. Bruce are held by Edinburgh University Library Special Collections (Gen. 1646-1669) and the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge (William Speirs Bruce Collection).
		R.N.R. Brown, A naturalist at the Poles: the life, work and voyages of Dr W.S. Bruce, the polar explorer (London, 1923): Sp Coll RQ 1951; W.S. Bruce, The log of the Scotia, 1902-04, edited by Peter Speak (Edinburgh, 1992); W.S. Bruce et al., 'First Antarctic voyage of the Scotia', Scottish Geographical Magazine, vol.
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/month/apr2004.html (1431 words)

	MGM 2003 - The First Polar Hero At The Royal Museum - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
		Speirs Bruce abhorred the brutal animal slaughter, but the experience whetted his appetite for some serious research.
		There is a gem of a photograph of Speirs Bruce on skis, stiff as a board and cradling his back on the slopes of Ben Nevis.
		Speirs Bruce studied Artic Ocean currents with a message-in-a-bottle in the languages of the surrounding countries, conjuring up images of perplexed Norwegians scratching their heads at washed-up notes addressed to the British Admiralty.
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /exh_gfx_en/ART16867.html (925 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Polar adventurers - Scots polar pioneer honoured (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A new biography of Dr William Speirs Bruce, who led the project at age 35, will be published in November, and a new Scottish polar expedition to South Georgia leaves the following month.
		Dr Bruce’s party returned to Scotland in triumph in 1904 after collecting a vast number of samples and specimens, and correcting previous maps of Antarctica.
		Dr Bruce’s expedition left Troon on the Ayrshire coast on 2 November 1902 in a 140ft-long converted Norwegian whaler, the Scotia.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=854&id=1028582002 (931 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - A Diary of Climate Change
		William Speirs Bruce made scientific history when he led an expedition to Antarctica, and carried out experiments to show that this part of the globe was crucially important to the world climate.
		Yet his achievements are largely forgotten, apart from one famous fl and white photo of a kilted bagpiper standing on the ice, serenading a bemused penguin.
		Their contribution to the international debate on climate change will be a fitting testament to Britain’s forgotten polar hero, William Speirs Bruce.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/science/diaryofclimatechange.shtml (686 words)

	Scot100 - A First for Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Manned by 27 experienced seamen from all over Scotland and carrying a complement of seven scientists, the expedition was the realised dream of Dr William Speirs Bruce who had fallen under the spell of the Antarctic when he first ventured into the southern latitudes in 1892 as surgeon on the Dundee whaling ship Balaena.
		Although William Speirs Bruce was ultimately unable to establish a research station on the Antarctic continent as he had hoped, he did reach Coats Land at 74 degrees south in the second summer and his Laurie Island base became the oldest permanently staffed meteorological station in the whole of the Antarctic.
		William Speirs Bruce was without doubt the most experienced polar scientist of his day.
	www.scot100.co.uk /PageAccess.aspx?id=44 (727 words)

	Chapter 11. — 70South - Antarctic News, Antarctic Information, Interactive and Updated Daily... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bruce actually disagreed with the main goal of the Discovery expedition: to reach the geographic South Pole.
		Bruce decided to spend the winter in a bay of the mountainous Laurie Island, one of the South Orkney Islands.
		Bruce, however, concentrated himself on the North Pole, but he stayed well disposed to Antarctica.
	www.70south.com /resources/antarctic-history/chapter-by-chapter/chapter11 (445 words)

	Scotland's Ice Pioneers - Education - Global Friends of Scotland
		An 1892 whaling expedition left Dundee for the frozen lands with a young Edinburgh medical student called William Speirs Bruce on board the Balaena.
		Bruce and his team entered new research territory and set up a weather station in conjunction with the Argentinians, still operated today.
		Scots, even after Bruce, have continued to be mesmerised by the poles.
	www.friendsofscotland.gov.uk /education/antarctic.html (1194 words)

	Bruce Collection
		Some 1400 stereoscopic glass photographic negatives made by William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921) on expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic between 1899 and 1914.
		The title and date are inscribed on most plates, probably by Bruce; numbers were added by a different hand in an arrangement by subject which does not retain the chronological sequence in which the photographs were taken.
		Records for all items are available via the manuscripts catalogue; go to the collection level record for a complete overview of holdings (click on the various listed call numbers to see details of the separate accessions and then click 'List Collection Content' link to bring up lists of items held).
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /collection/bruce.html (232 words)

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