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June ReQuest2021 UPDATE 2019

YOUTH AMBASSADORS P. 1 RESEARCH PROJECTS P. 2 SHACKLETON’S SCOUTS P. 3 LEADERSHIP TEAM P. 4 OUR SPONSORS P. 5

In the Winter of 2021/22 a select team of Scouts will be sailing on the Bark Europa Tall Ship from South America to in .

Exactly 100 years after two Scouts sailed on Shackleton’s final Expedition the project‘s objectives will be:- Selection Weekend, Bewl Water, April 2019 The four from Kent who successfully made it * To participate as members of After five years of careful planning for the Kent through and were selected were: - the crew on the Barque Europa Scouts ReQuest2021 Expedition to Antarctica the on a voyage to Antarctica in the • Darcey Holmes from Thanet District Winter ‘21/’22. steering committee selected our four final Youth Ambassadors. Eighteen keen applicants had • Lucy Morgan from Tonbridge District * For each of the participants to to undergo a rigorous selection process including carry out an research • Genevieve Scullion from Dover District producing a video, team building challenges, hiking, project and present the results mental puzzles, sailing, cooking, origami, creative • George Stonor from Faversham District upon return. game development and a tough panel interview. * To visit Port Lockroy base that was established by Scout James Marr and fly a Scout flag on Antarctica.

* To unveil an expedition plaque dedicated to Marr & Mooney at Gilwell Park and Port Lockroy in Antarctica.

* To involve the younger sections in join-in educational fun activities in the form of Antarctica In An Ice Box.

BARK EUROPA Type: 3-masted steel barque Tonnage: 303 GT Length: 39.8 m (131 ft) Height: 33 m (108 ft) Sail plan: 30 sails (incl. 6 studding sails; 1,250 m2 (13,500 sq ft) sail area Speed: 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) Our Antarctic Research Projects Lucy Morgan’s Genevieve Scullion’s George Stonor’s Darcey Holmes’s

CLIMATE CHANGE PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT 3D ICEBERG SIMULATION PHOTOGRAPHY & ART

Writing a blog about climate change, The physical effects of different A study into the movement of icebergs Capturing, using photography, a based around questions people have. temperatures on body functions. With the after they have detached from the ice historical journey in contrast with Also running Guide/Scout meetings help of the members of the expedition, shelf. This would involve understanding 100 years ago. Using art to convey on the topic. Plus she will be running she will be able to measure the effect of the different forces acting on the ice - the overwhelming effects of human a fundraising event related to climate varying temperatures on lung function, such as sea currents, winds and activity and climate change on change. heart rate/ blood pressure and reactions. gravity - and their resultant effects. Antarctica’s landscape and wildlife.

AS A JOINT TEAM PROJECT IT IS ALSO PROPOSED THAT WE FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SCOUT MARR WHO LATER WENT ON TO PRODUCE “THE NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE ANTARCTIC KRILL (1962)” REPORT - CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

WE WOULD LIKE TO CREATE SOME KIND OF ONGOING SCOUTING BASED RESEARCH PROJECT TO CONTINUE MARR’S LEGACY AND HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF KRILL TO THE ANTARCTIC FOOD CHAIN AND ECOSYSTEM.

Alan Noake’s Cathy Mummery’s Laura Bernard’s Matt Wood’s

THE SOUNDS OF ANTARCTICA MOTION SICKNESS STUDY PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD ELECTRICITY GENERATION

Carry out first hand research on how Recording an entire “soundscape” The physiological causes of motion Document, through pictures, the podcast of Antarctica – the various sickness and then whilst on Bark Europa physical and psychological effects of electricity is generated and stored in sounds of the ship, icebergs, wildlife look into the various treatments and fellow explorers throughout the the research bases on Antarctica. and weather. As well as one-to-one how effective they are on individuals - journey to and from Antarctica. We all know that global warming is interviews with participants, crew, shop bought medications, natural Capturing the highs and lows of the happening, and one of the key issues scientists and tourists. The project aim remedies and common sense remedies entire experience. contributing to this is the way we is to produce a complete audio record (watching the horizon, fresh air etc.) (humans) generate and use electricity. of the project. “Imagine how my heart leaped when the news was told! Here was romance personified. I think that any youth of my age would have felt with me that all the adventure books ever written were but tame affairs So, who exactly were Shackleton’s as compared with what the Scouts? Well, to begin with they future promised. We were to were both Scottish patrol leaders- follow in the footsteps of brave James Marr from the 1st City of men who had dared much; of Aberdeen Scout Group and Norman men who had died because of The word was that 16-year-old Marr was zoologist on the British Mooney from the 2nd Orkney Scout their love of perilous adven- Mooney would leave the ship there Expedition 1925. Between Group. ture. Anything might happen; and return home but the plucky June and September Marr imagination filled in the coming The older of the two, James William youngster stayed on board for the collected plant specimens in years with pictures that set the Slesser Marr (1902–1965) was born next leg to Madeira. But the seas Spitsburgen and Franz Josef Land. mind alive with delight.” on the 9th December 1902 at got worse and on reaching Madeira In 1943 Lt. Commander Marr Cushnie, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire. the doctor decided that enough led a covert operation known as (James Marr, Marr was the second son of John was enough and sent Norman which George Marr, a farmer, formerly of home. established a base at Port Lockroy, Into The Frozen Coynachie, Aberdeenshire; and Shackleton himself sent Norman's a tourist ship stop today, in the Georgina Sutherland Slesser. He first parents a telegram declaring Palmer Archipelago in an effort to South, 1923) attended Aberdeen Grammar School "regret necessary action solely in assert control over the British and then went on to study at boys interest, he was always Antarctic Territory. Marr organised Aberdeen University from 1919. Marr willing". and commanded advance parties became a Doctor of Science (DSc) of Falkland Is. Dependencies and completed a Master's degree In 1929 Mooney passed the Survey in Graham Land region of (MA). In 1919 Marr was awarded the Colonial Survey examination and Antarctica, 1943–45. scout silver cross and the bronze received an appointment in Nigeria medal of the Royal Humane Society as a mining surveyor with the Marr died from emphysema and for saving bathers from drowning. Colonial Survey Department. He bronchopneumonia on the 29th married Lillias Keith in 1932 and April 1965 at Milford Chest The younger scout, Norman Erlend they had two sons and a daughter. Hospital, Busbridge, Surrey. He was Mooney (1905 -1945) was born in He spent the latter years of his survived by his wife and five (two “Stumbling across this book Kirkwall, Orkney in 1905 three years short life working for the Colonial sons and three daughters) of their and reading those inspirational after the marriage of his father John Office in Nigeria. He was tragically six children. Marr's monumental words above sparked off the Mooney (1862-1950) to his mother killed on 20 November 1945 at the report on Antarctic Krill (Marr, J. whole idea for ReQuest2021. Isabella Jane Mooney neé Barron age of 40 in a rock fall at Jos in the (1962) Natural History and I had a dream that exactly 100 (1871-1945) while they were living at centre of the country. Geography of the Antarctic Krill. year’s later we might send 53 Victoria Street, Kirkwall. Discovery Report 1: 33-464) scouts on a research expedition Following the Quest Expedition Regrettably, from the outset the remains the major reference on back to Antarctica and raise James Marr went on to resume his Quest did not have an easy voyage, this vital and central component of awareness of the two Scouts university work at Aberdeen encountering heavy gales as they left the Antarctic food-web. who sailed with Shackleton on University in Scotland in the England which continued throughout the 1921 Quest Expedition.” academic year 1923–4, graduating James Marr of Aberdeen had first the first leg of the journey through both with a BSc and an MA in 1925. visited Antarctica as a teenage the Bay of Biscay to Lisbon. (Alan Noake, Scout, he returned as a marine biologist, and after that he played a Sources/Acknowledgements: Project Leader) big part in setting up today's British Norman Erlend Mooney, Shackleton’s “other” Boy Scout by Ronald I. Lewis-Smith Scout Marr and the Quest (http://www.history.scoutingradio.net/marr.htm) Antarctic Survey. by Colin (Johnny) Walker

Alan Noake Cathy Mummery Laura Bernard Matt Wood Assistant County Commissioner District Commissioner for Weald Explorer Scout Leader District Network Commissioner for Kent Scouts Global Projects. Goudhurst Scout Leader for Folkestone and Hythe Assistant Explorer Scout Leader District Commissioner for Deal, for Malling Walmer, Sandwich & District Cathy has always had a fascination with As a farmer Laura is used to hard Antarctica and Polar Explorers. work both physically and mentally. Matt has always been a keen sailor and Alan is an experienced expedition has a lifelong ambition to swim in every “Antarctica, Shackleton, a sailing ship, “This is a once in a lifetime leader who came up with the concept. ocean on the planet! Scouting... everyone who knows me, opportunity where I know I have the “For as long as I can remember it has knows these are my biggest interests! chance to make a difference and I “I’d like to go in the most sustainable been my dream to visit Antarctica and Why wouldn't I want to go? To have the realise going to Antarctica would be way possible and want to learn a whole follow in Shackleton’s footsteps! To go chance to go with others who have the rewarding on many levels.” lot more about our precious planet, and representing Scouts is a real honour.” same passion would be fantastic.” spread that message when I return!”

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