Entries tagged

‘explorer’

EventDate
Fife-born ‘Robinson Crusoe’ dies 13th December
End of the first recorded walk between John O’Groats and Land’s End 21st November
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition embarks on an ambitious voyage 2nd November
Biographer and travel writer James Boswell is born 29th October
Death of adventurer Isabella Lucy Bird 7th October
A Scot puts Greenwich on the map 1st October
Egyptologist James Burton is bron 22nd September
Birth of the coloniser of Nova Scotia 12th September
The man who named Antarctica is born in Edinburgh 22nd March
Explorer David Livingstone is born in Bantyre 19th March