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Survival Stories

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Resources to get you started

Sir Ernest Shackleton

South Pole

Enchanted Learning

Cool Antarctica

John Krakauer

New York Times 

Into Thin Air - article

William Bligh

Australian Museum

​Project Gutenberg

Tony Bullimore

Alive - after four days in a watery tomb

BBC - On this Day

Jamie Neale

The Mirror - Jamie Neale the British Backpacker

The Telegraph - Jamie Neale Survived

Douglas Mawson

Austrailan Dictionary of Biography - Mawson

ERGO - Douglas Mawson

National Geographic

Ricky Megee

Sydney Morning Herald

News BBC - Outback 'skeleton' recalls ordeal

The National - A New Lease

Aron Ralston

The Telegraph - 127 Hours

Nando Parrado & Robert Canessa

National Geographic - After the Plane Crash
 
Telegraph - What could we eat but our dead friends?

Guardian - I will survive

Yossi Ghinsberg

About Yossi Ghinsberg

The Jewish Chronicle

Mark Smith

The Guardian - Shipwrecked Pair

New Zealand Herald - Shipwrecked

Robert Bogucki

BBC - Outback Odyssey

ABC - Miracles in the Dust

Stuart Diver

The Age - The day the Earth Fell

James Scott

The Age - Clinging to Life

UPI - Man survives 43 days in mountains on snow and ice.

Lincoln Hall

Australian Geographic - Australian Mountaineer

SMH - Tribute Speech

Tami Oldham

Outside - Mind over Matter 

Chicago Tribute - Coping on Land

John McDouall Stuart

John McDouall Stuart Society

Explorers of Australia

Mark Inglis

Mark Inglis 

NPR -  Amputee Lauded
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