Tom Crean (explorer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tom Crean (explorer)

Irish explorer

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1877

Place of Birth: Annascaul, Munster, Ireland

Date of Death: 27-Jul-1938

Profession: explorer

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Tom Crean (explorer)

  • Thomas Crean (20 July 1877 – 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving.
  • Tom Crean was a member of three major expeditions to Antarctica during what is known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott's 1911–13 Terra Nova Expedition.
  • This saw the race to reach the South Pole lost to Roald Amundsen and ended in the deaths of Scott and his polar party.
  • During this expedition, Crean's 35 statute miles (56 km) solo walk across the Ross Ice Shelf to save the life of Edward Evans led to him receiving the Albert Medal. Crean had left the family farm near Annascaul to enlist in the Royal Navy at age 15 but he lied about his own age as he had to be 16.
  • In 1901, while serving on Ringarooma in New Zealand, he volunteered to join Scott's 1901–04 Discovery Expedition to Antarctica, thus beginning his exploring career.
  • After his experience on the Terra Nova, Crean's third and final Antarctic venture was as second officer on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
  • After the ship Endurance became beset in the pack ice and sank, Crean and the ship's company spent 492 days drifting on the ice before a journey in boats to Elephant Island.
  • He was a member of the crew which made a small boat journey of 800 nautical miles (1,500 km) from Elephant Island to South Georgia Island, to seek aid for the stranded party.

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