Andrew Keith Jack (9September 188526September 1966) was an Australian physicist who served as a member of the

Ross Sea Party The Ross Sea party was a component of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Its task was to lay a series of supply depots across the Great Ice Barrier from the Ross Sea to the Beardmore Glacier, along the polar ...

as part of Ernest Shackleton's

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Ernest Shackleton, Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the ...

. Jack was educated at the University of Melbourne, graduating with an MSc in 1914. A year later he joined the Shackleton expedition, where along with other members of the crew, he became stranded for 2 years in Antarctica after the loss of the ship Aurora. During this time he kept a regular diary across five volumes. Jack was rescued along with six other survivors in 1917. Jack also took many photographs during the expedition, some of which were later hand-coloured as lantern slides. Jack's diaries, as well as a number of his artefacts from the expedition, including his 1829 Aneroid barometer and a set of two thermometers, were bequeathed to the

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. After the expedition, Jack worked during the

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in an explosives factory (known as the Cordite Factory), utilising his expertise in chemistry, eventually become a Senior Assistant Manager.Jack, Andrew Keith (1885-1966) biography
/ref> After the war he took on various roles managing explosives and safety for the Australian Government.

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1885 births 1966 deaths Australian physicists University of Melbourne alumni Antarctic expeditions {{physicist-stub