Robert Forde

Robert Forde was born in rural parish of Moviddy near Bandon 16 miles from Cork City, Ireland.

Temperatures dropped as low as -62C leaving Forde to return home due to his hand being severely frostbitten.

He survived the war and remained in the Royal Navy until 17 February 1920 when he returned to Cobh, County Cork,[6] where he spent the rest of his life.

It reached Ross Island on 4 January 1911 after coming in contact with severe storms and heavy pack ice.

The Terra Nova left on 26 January carrying a four-man team headed for the Victoria Land mountains opposite Ross island, and six-man Eastern Party under Lt Victor Campbell.

The Victoria Land Party included the geologists Thomas Griffith Taylor ad Frank Debenhams, the physicist Charles Wright, and PO Edgar Evans.

It investigated the geology and glaciology of the McMurdo dry valleys and the Taylor and Koettlitz Glaciers, returning to Hut Point on 14 March.

The Terra Nova left Cape Evans with the remains of the expedition on 19 January 1903; pausing to pick up Taylor's and Debenhams's and the Eastern Party's specimens from Victoria Land, they sailed for New Zealand.

Forde's role in the expedition led to his promotion to Chief Petty Officer on board HMS Vivid, and he served on her and several other British ships during World War 1.

He is remembered by the naming of Mount Forde, a monumental peak of over 1,200 metres at the head of Hunt Glacier in Victoria Land Antarctica (76°53'S, 162°05'E).

[13] Robert Forde is buried at the Clonmel Old Church Cemetery, Cobh in his native County Cork.

The rough hewn granite stone faces out to Cork Harbour and has a bronze plaque showing Forde with his sled.