Private Archibald – Archibald McMurdo
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Private_Archibald#ixzz7eIyHnZ6i
https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/archibald-mcmurdo
Private Archibald is a Royal Expeditionary Force trooper. He needs help gathering intelligence on enemy forces in the area.
Vice-Admiral Archibald McMurdo (24 September 1812 – 11 December 1875) was a Scottish naval officer and polar explorer after whom Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound, McMurdo Station, McMurdo Ice Shelf, McMurdo Dry Valleys and McMurdo–South Pole Highway are named.
McMurdo was a lieutenant on the HMS Terror when it was sent in search of a Northwest Passage, 1836-37, but the ship was frozen in and battered by the Arctic ice, barely making it back to Ireland before falling apart. Nevertheless, the Terror was rebuilt and sent out in 1839 in the other direction, along with HMS Erebus, looking for Antarctica, and McMurdo was again aboard the Terror as first lieutenant. This expedition, commanded by James Clark Ross, was more successful, discovering the Ross Sea, the Ross Ice Shelf, Ross Island, and a small bay in the Ross Sea that Ross generously named McMurdo Sound.
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Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Private Archibald image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Lieutenant McMurdo image is borrowed from hyperleap.com and I believe it to be in the public domain
HMS Terror and McMurdo Base images are borrowed from the Linda Hall Library site the engraving is in the public domain and the base photo is from the US Government
Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
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