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26/12/2012

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Sgeulachd-beatha Thòmais MhicLeòid à Leòdhas, maraiche a choisinn dà Bhonn Pòlar.

Sgeulachd-beatha Thòmais MhicLeòid à Leòdhas, maraiche a choisinn dà Bhonn Pòlar. Ordinary seaman Thomas MacLeod's extraordinary achievements with Polar explorers in Antarctica.

Cò mheud againn as urrainn a ràdh gu robh sinn a-riamh ann an Antarctica? B' urrainn do mharaiche Tòmas MacLeòid à Leòdhas a ràdh gu robh e ann trì tursan agus gun do choisinn e dà Bhonn Pòlar airson a shaothair.
Bha Tòmas an luib nan cuairtean eachdraidheil aig Raibeard Scott air an Terra Nova agus aig Ernest Shackleton air an Endurance 's an Quest a dh' Antarctica ach 's gann gu bheil eòlas aig daoine ann an Leòdhas air an sgeulachd aige. Tha Cairistìona Allon, a bha air aon turas a dh' Antarctica i fhèin, 100 bliadhna an dèidh do Thòmas a dhol ann an toiseach, a' siubhal a Chanada far na bhàsaich e, an tòir air sgeulachd an duine air an d' thug am fear saidheans ainmeil Seumas Marr an t-ainm "...an iceman to his fingertips". 
Seaman Thomas MacLeod from Lewis was a crew member of Robert Scott's Terra Nova expedition and of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance and Quest expeditions to Antarctica. He was also one of the few seamen ever to have been awarded two Polar Medals. Christina Allon, who visited Antarctica 100 years after Thomas first went there, travels to Canada to discover more about the ordinary seaman who was a part of extraordinary historical events and who died in 1960 in Kingston, Ontario.

Èist ri naidheachdan, còmhradh, ceòl agus spòrs gach là, moch gu anmoch.

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