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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Sir Ernest Shackleton's [[Real Life]] expedition to the Antarctic. Partially averted in that everyone survived and Shackleton was forced to travel the last leg by himself, [[Climbing the Cliffs of Insanity|over sheer cliffs]] because they crash landed on the wrong side of the island of [[wikipedia:South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands|South]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031091735/http://www.sgisland.gs/index.php/Main_Page Georgia]
* When Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen raced to be the first expedition to reach the south pole, Scott's expedition found the Norwegian flag waiting for them. Then Scott's entire team died from scurvy on the way back.
* Several [[Real Life]] expeditions into [[Darkest Africa]] inspired this trope, most notably [[Cloudcuckoolander|Emin Bey]]'s expedition to Equatoria, a vast and inaccessible swamp on the headwaters of the Nile. (A German-Jewish geographer who had been appointed Bey of the Turkish Empire, he claimed the region for either England, Egypt, or Germany, it's not clear which.)
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