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Louis Charles Bernacchi - Biographical notes

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Louis Bernacchi on the Southern Cross Expedition
picture courtesy - Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.

bullet Southern Cross expedition over wintering in the hut at Cape Adare.
bulletPhysicist - Discovery 1901-04

Louis Bernacchi was born and was educated in Tasmania, later joining the Melbourne Observatory as a student where he gained the specialist knowledge in magnetism that led to his being appointed to Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition in 1898.

He was a very late recruit to the Discovery expedition, being appointed as physicist only after the original candidate had been rejected on medical grounds. He did not join the expedition until the Discovery had reached New Zealand.

At the time of the Discovery Expedition, Bernacchi was the only man on the ship who had previously been to Antarctica.

Landmarks named after Louis Bernacchi

Feature Name: Bernacchi Head
Type: cliff
Latitude: 76°08´S
Longitude: 168°20´E
Description: A precipitous cliff forming the S extremity of Franklin Island in the Ross Sea. Named "Cape Bernacchi" by the BrAE (1898-1900) for Louis C. Bernacchi, a member of the expedition. The generic has been changed to "Head" by the US-ACAN to avoid duplication with Cape Bernacchi on the coast of Victoria Land.

Variant Name(s) - Cape Bernacchi

Feature Name: Bernacchi Bay
Type: bay
Latitude: 77°28´S
Longitude: 163°27´E
Description: Bay about 3 mi wide between Marble Point and Cape Bernacchi, on the coast of Victoria Land. Named after Cape Bernacchi by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott, 1910-13.


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Biographical information - This is a particularly difficult area to research and I am concentrating on the Antarctic (and Arctic) experiences of the men involved. Any further information or pictures visitors may have is gratefully received. Likewise links to other websites, details of family trees or any other form of information of the people mentioned here and involved in early Antarctic exploration, or of any corrections to the details published.  Please email  - Paul, webmaster.

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