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Royal Sussex Regiment, Special Air Service. Charles Robert Burton (13 December 1942 – 15 July 2002) known as Charlie Burton was an English explorer, best known for his part in the Transglobe Expedition, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole.
ocultar. La expedición Transglobe (del inglés: Transglobe Expedition) fue una expedición polar que logró realizar la primera circunnavegación circumpolar —es decir, pasando por ambos polos terrestres— usando solo medios de transporte de superficie. 1 En 1979, los aventureros británicos sir Ranulph Fiennes (1944) y Charles R ...
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The original idea for the expedition was conceived by Ginny Fiennes in February 1972.The trip was entirely funded through sponsorships and the free labour of the expedition members, which took seven years to organize. Before the expedition, they had to limit the food that they ate. They brought a large amount of bread, cereal, and coffee. During th...
South Pole
Ranulph Fiennes, Charles Burton, and Oliver Shepard left London on 2 September 1979, beginning with a relatively simple overland trip through France and Spain, then across West Africa through the Sahara. They boarded the ship the Benjamin Bowring in the Gulf of Guinea and travelled by sea to South Africa.After preparations in South Africa, they sailed for Antarctica on 22 December 1979, and arrived on 4 January 1980. With help from Ginny Fiennes and Giles Kershaw, they built a base camp near...
North Pole
As part of the expedition, Fiennes and Burton completed the Northwest Passage. They left Tuktoyaktuk on 26 July 1981, in a 18 ft open Boston Whaler motorboat and reached Tanquary Fiord, 36 days later, on 31 August 1981. Their journey was the first open boat transit of the Northwest Passage from West to East, and covered around 3,000 miles (2,600 nautical miles; 4,800 kilometres), taking a route through Dolphin and Union Strait following the South coast of Victoria and King William Islands, No...
The journey was recorded in a book by Fiennes, To the Ends of the Earth: The Transglobe Expedition, The First Pole-to-Pole Circumnavigation of the Globe (1983). It was also the subject of a 1983 film, also titled To the Ends of the Earth, made by director William Kronick and featuring actor Richard Burton as the narrator. The trip was also recorded...
Fiennes, Sir Ranulph (1983). To the Ends of the Earth: the Transglobe Expedition, The First Pole-to-Pole Circumnavigation of the Globe. New York: Arbor House. ISBN 0-87795-490-9. OCLC 9812992.Fiennes, Sir Ranulph (October 1983). "Circling Earth From Pole to Pole". National Geographic. Vol. 164, no. 4. pp. 464–481. ISSN 0027-9358. OCLC 643483454.Fiennes, Virginia; Fiennes, Ranulph (1984). Bothie the Polar Dog: The Dog Who Went to Both Poles with the Transglobe Expedition. Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-36319-3.Explorer – 2022 documentary film on the explorer Ranulph FiennesRough map of the expedition (based on the official route graphic). Red shows the rough path; cyan shows the 0- and 180-degree meridians.22 de may. de 2014 · May 22, 2014 MarcF. In 1979, adventurers Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Charles R. Burton set out to make the world’s first circumpolar navigation, traveling the world “vertically” traversing both the North and South Pole while using only surface transport. Starting from Greenwich in September 1979 in the United Kingdom, they went ...
Charles Robert Burton (13 December 1942 – 15 July 2002) known as Charlie Burton was an English explorer, best known for his part in the Transglobe Expedition, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole.
Charles Burton. Charles Burton may refer to: Charles Burton (cricketer) (1875–1948), Jamaican cricketer. Charles Burton (journalist), English journalist and sportswriter. Charles Burton (judge) (1760–1847), English born barrister and judge in Ireland. Charles Burton (sinologist), a Canadian political scientist.
17 de jul. de 2002 · Charles Burton, a British explorer who took part in the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole, died on Monday at his family home in the English village of Framfield in...
