{"id":13790,"date":"2011-10-02T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/historic-antarctic-expedition-2\/"},"modified":"2011-10-02T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T08:44:00","slug":"historic-antarctic-expedition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/10\/historic-antarctic-expedition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Antarctic expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"escape antarctica\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/resources0.news.com.au\/images\/2011\/09\/29\/1226151\/455120-escape-antarctica.jpg\" width=\"400\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<br \/><span><i><span>One Ocean Expeditions ship Akademik Ioffe in Antarctica. A cruise voyage will take place to South Georgia in November to bury the ashes of British explorer Frank Wild\u00a0 next to Ernest Shackleton. Picture: Supplied <\/span><\/i><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Angela Saurine | National Features, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/\">News Ltd <\/a><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>IT WAS his final wish to be buried next to Ernest Shackleton and 90 years after their last expedition together, Antarctic explorer Frank Wild&#8217;s request will finally be granted.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wild, considered one of the great Antarctic explorers, will be buried beside his former boss in Antarctica this year after an exhaustive search for his long-lost ashes.<\/p>\n<p>Four of his Australian descendants will be among the passengers taking part in a commemorative cruise with One Ocean Expeditions to South Georgia in November to take his ashes to their final resting place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/holiday-ideas\/historic-antarctic-expedition\/story-e6frfqd9-1226153532913#ixzz1Zc0Y2WD0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Angela Saurine travelled with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.activetravel.com.au\/\">Active Travel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Ocean Expeditions ship Akademik Ioffe in Antarctica. A cruise voyage will take place to South Georgia in November to bury the ashes of British explorer Frank Wild\u00a0 next to Ernest Shackleton. Picture: Supplied Angela Saurine | National Features, News Ltd IT WAS his final wish to be buried next to Ernest Shackleton and 90 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-13790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-active-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}