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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1il199q/why_did_they_mostly_use_sail_ships_during_the/
If anyone would like to know about Antarctic boats, now you do.
The Worst Journey In The World is amazing, by the way
AskHistorians will delete basically anything you can’t source, so eventually you just do it!
It’s honestly a weirdly involved process mounting that sort of expedition. To this day, you sort of have to plan for “falling off the edge of the earth for the duration”