Xavier Guillaume Mertz (6 October 1882 – 8 January 1913) was a Swiss polar explorer, mountaineer, and skier who took part in the Far Eastern Party, a 1912–1913...
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novelist Xavier Mertz (1883–1913), Swiss Antarctic explorer Fictional characters: Fred and Ethel Mertz, fictional couple on I Love Lucy Mertz Glacier,...
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journalist Xavier Ehrenbert Fridelli (1673–1743), Austrian Jesuit missionary Xavier Fernique (1934–2020), French mathematician Xavier Mertz (1882–1913)...
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Far Eastern Party (section Mertz and Ninnis Glaciers)
Edward Ninnis, a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers, and Swiss ski expert Xavier Mertz; the party used sledge dogs to increase their speed across the ice. Initially...
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1913, Antarctic explorers on the Far Eastern Party Douglas Mawson and Xavier Mertz were believed to have been poisoned, the latter fatally, from eating...
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King Davis. On the trip Ninnis soon formed a close friendship with Dr. Xavier Mertz, a Swiss mountaineer who joined the Expedition in London and who was...
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northward into the Southern Ocean, the Mertz Glacial Tongue. It is named in honor of the Swiss explorer Xavier Mertz. The Mertz-Ninnis Valley (67°25′S 146°0′E...
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himself was part of a three-man sledging team, the Far Eastern Party, with Xavier Mertz and Lieutenant Belgrave Ninnis, who headed east on 10 November 1912,...
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Far-Eastern Sledging Party, consisting of Mawson, Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz, was still missing. It would eventually transpire that Ninnis had been...
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Jeffryes Charles Laseron Cecil Madigan Douglas Mawson Archibald McLean Xavier Mertz Herbert Murphy Belgrave Ninnis Frank Stillwell Eric Webb Leslie Whetter...
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