The Remarkable Wright
PHOTOS: HERBERT PONTING, ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Wright after returning from Barrier.
It was one of those serendipitous events during an eight-hour flight back to Christchurch, New Zealand, from Antarctica that I first came across a reference to Sir Charles Seymour Wright in Diana Preston's, A First Rate Tragedy: Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions. Like most Canadians, I had never heard of Wright, a Canadian who had a major impact on the 20th century.
Born in Toronto in 1887, Wright would not only find the frozen remains of Captain Robert Scott and his men after their ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, but he would also collect the ...