wiki-illiam #106: q5

[dubdobdee]

Which independent school:
i: started in the Depot?
ii: favours Malvolian hosiery?
iii: is approached by the Hundred?
iv: sold the site to Merchant Taylors'?
v: possesses a relic of an epic crossing of the Scotia Sea?
vi: had in its statutes a cryptic acknowledgement of the final chapter of St John's Gospel?
vii: owes its foundation to Salmonella typhi?
viii: has a boomer in the chapel tower?
ix: was pictured by a little canal?
x: replaced a lofty hermitage?

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Comments

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

V. Is entirely find out able with a minimal amount of poking on Wikipedia, if you start with the epic crossing etc.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I poked around on Wikipedia - assuming that the crossing they were getting at was the Shackleton 1916 one - but couldn't find any mention of any relic or relic-like object.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ooh that i actually CAN look up in my own massive mentalist shrine to matters ant/arctic copy of huntford's shackleton biog! i assume it's his boots or goggles or skis or something

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

did Shackleton go to wellington college? this vaguely rings a bell b4 i reach down the volume in question

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

*looks it up*: haha no but SAME DIFF (he opined snobbishly)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ah got it -- bigger than a boot (unless yr german)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

To complete this: Shackleton went to DULWICH college, and the school now houses the boat he crossed from the Antarctic continent -- Elephant Island to be precise -- to South Georgia whaling station, to ensure that he lost not a single man of his expedition, despite losing his ship the Endurance, in ice-bound seas. The boat is the James Caird.