Everything about Cecil Meares totally explained
Cecil Henry Meares (1877-1937) was the dog handler on the
Terra Nova Expedition, the British expedition that took place from 1910 to 1912. Meares was an adventurer: a man full of action and who liked to have fun, which also made following orders of
Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition leader, difficult at times. Before his involvement in the expedition, he was a British military officer, a fur-trader in
Kamchatka and
Okhotsk in
Siberia, a fighter in the
Russo-Japanese War and the
Boer War and a traveler to various places including
Tibet.
Meares’s task before the expedition included selecting the dogs and ponies and then transporting them from Siberia to
New Zealand. Meares knew little about ponies, but nevertheless followed Scott’s orders and went to
Nikolayevsk, Siberia to select the dogs and ponies. Scott specifically wanted white ponies for the expedition because during the 1907 Nimrod Expedition, Shackleton observed that the white ponies outlived the dark ponies. Lawrence Oates, the British Army Captain of the expedition was disappointed in Meares’s selection of the ponies as they'd “such deficiencies as: narrow chests, knocked knees, …aged.” Once the Terra Nova Expedition began, Meares and
Dimitri Gerov, a dog driver looked after the animals.
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