Cork town honors member of Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Patrick Keohane 100 years on

Will check it out the next time I am home.

Fair play to Mr. Keohane and descendents, but I feel that the more amazing story is that of Tom Crean of Anascual, Co. Kerry, who survived BOTH the Scott expedition and the Shackleton expedition. On the fateful Scott expedition, he was not chosen to go the final, fatal distance to the Pole, but was instrumental in getting his team back to base. In the famous Shackleton expedition, he crewed the three-man launch captained by Shackleton over thousands of ocean mile to Georgia Island and climbed the mountainous island to find an outpost that could rescue the remaining crewmen in Antartica. The stories are well told in the ten year old book, Tom Crean, Unsung Hero.