Mackay, Edgeworth David, and Douglas Mawson at the South Magnetic Pole on 16 January 1909
Born
Alistair Forbes Mackay
(1878-02-22)22 February 1878
Carskey, Argyllshire, Scotland
Died
c. (aged 35)
near Herald Island, Chukchi Sea
Education
George Watson's College
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh
University of Dundee
Occupation(s)
Physician, biologist, polar explorer
Known for
First ascent of Mount Erebus
First to the South Magnetic Pole
Death during the Karluk expedition
Awards
Silver Polar Medal (1909)
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch
British Army, Royal Navy
Service years
1902–1906 (navy)
Unit
South African Constabulary
Wars
Second Boer War
Alistair Forbes Mackay (22 February 1878 – c. February 1914) was a Scottish physician, biologist, and polar explorer known for being the first, along with Australians Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David, to reach the South Magnetic Pole on 16 January 1909, during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–1909.
Alistair Forbes Mackay (22 February 1878 – c. February 1914) was a Scottish physician, biologist, and polar explorer known for being the first, along with...
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South Magnetic Pole, attained by Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson and AlistairMackay on 16 January 1909. Shackleton returned to the United Kingdom as a...
On 16 January 1909 three men (Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David, and AlistairMackay) from Sir Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition claimed to have found...
the expeditions led by Ernest Shackleton included two surgeons. Dr. AlistairMackay, the assistant surgeon on the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–1909...
monoxide poisoning, before they could be rescued. Four others, including AlistairMackay who had been part of the Nimrod Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition...
Eclipse our sins, by Tlotlo Tsamaase; It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way, by AlistairMackay and Noor, by Nnedi Okorafor, have been highlighted as remarkable publications...
by A. E. Harbord. Others in the shore party were the two surgeons, AlistairMackay and Eric Marshall, Bernard Day the motor expert, and Sir Philip Brocklehurst...
stayed an extra year. In doing so they became, in the company of AlistairMackay, the first to climb the summit of Mount Erebus and to trek to the South...
sponsor an around-the-world airplane race. Canadian Arctic Expedition – AlistairMackay, the expedition's medical doctor, along with three other members of...
Clan Mackay whose early chiefs are all titled "of Strathnaver" from Iye MacAiodh 1st of Strathnaver (b. about 1210) to at least Sir Donald Mackay who was...
sport, paddling and sailing them in both Europe and the Middle East AlistairMackay (1878–1914), doctor and polar explorer, one of the first expedition...
volcano in Antarctica. David led the summit party consisting of Mawson, AlistairMackay and himself, and there was a supporting party of three which it was...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Alasdair McKay Sinclair Steedman, GCB, CBE, DFC, FRAeS (29 January 1922 – 2 January 1992) was a senior commander in the Royal Air...
(unclimbed until then). The party of Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson, AlistairMackay, Eric Marshall, Brocklehurst and Jameson Adams started on 5 March....
in 2003 by Pope John Paul II. Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson and AlistairMackay became the first persons to reach the South Magnetic Pole—or rather...
M-Net Prize for English Fiction 2010 It Doesn't Have to Be This Way by AlistairMackay, 2022 - longlisted for the 2022 British Science Fiction Association...
Glasgow Health Board. Donald Colin Mackay, Head Teacher, Craigmuir Primary School, Edinburgh. Douglas AlistairMackay, lately Professional and Technology...
and called it "a record [Harvey] was born to make", while Uncut's AlistairMacKay noted it as "a singular thing". NME's Elizabeth Aubrey described the...
Ernest Edward Withers, Site Manager, Walter Llewellyn & Sons Ltd. AlistairMackay Wood, Chairman, Voluntary Committee for Wales, International Year of...
Washington. Edward Noel Larmour, British Deputy High Commissioner, Lagos. AlistairMackay, Financial Adviser, British High Commission, New Delhi. Archibald Campbell...