1. Louis Bernacchi was educated in Hobart, Tasmania, at the Hutchins School from May 1889 and finishing at the school around Easter 1891.
10 Facts About Louis Bernacchi
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Louis Bernacchi entered the Melbourne Observatory in 1895 where he spent about three years studying magnetism and meteorology.
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Louis Bernacchi joined Carstens Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition which wintered at Cape Adare, Antarctica, joining the expedition in Christchurch, New Zealand after the previous physicist candidate had been rejected on medical grounds.
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Louis Bernacchi was awarded the Cuthbert-Peek Grant of the Royal Geographical Society that allowed him to work on the geomagnetic data.
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Louis Bernacchi was again a physicist on the Discovery expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott.
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Louis Bernacchi was the only man on this expedition who had previously been to the Antarctic.
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Louis Bernacchi invested in rubber plantations in Malaya, Java and Borneo.
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Louis Bernacchi remained active in scientific organisations, most notably the Royal Geographical Society, serving as a council member between 1928 and 1932.
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Louis Bernacchi planned his own expedition to the Antarctic in 1925, but failed to raise sufficient funds.
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Louis Bernacchi wrote a number of books on the Antarctic including a biography of Lawrence Oates called A Very Gallant Gentleman published in 1933, and Saga of the Discovery in 1938.