26th of July
Historical Antarctic Pictures and Events
1908 - George Marston in his cubicle at the Cape Royds Hut on Shackleton's Nimrod expedition. He was expedition artist on this and on the later on with the Endurance.
1895 Opening of the the Sixth International Geographical Congress held in London that will declare "...the exploration of the Antarctic Regions is the greatest piece of geographical exploration still to be undertaken" so opening the curtain on the "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration. https://archive.org/details/reportsixthinte00unkngoog/page/n7/mode/2up
