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OK, thanks saoralba, anyone else care to offer a thought...?

People in t'other place are saying that the solution is brilliant and ingenious, so I guess we'll know it's right once we see it. Unfortunately I can only assume it's a completely different approach to the terms of the rubric than the one most of us tried! And unless we can find a new way of reading it I expect we're sunk.

As Saoralba hinted, the "name common to both expeditions" is blindingly obvious once the penny drops. I think perhaps the use of the word 'name' is a little misleading...

I'm not sure that saoralba is correct, but I may have misunderstood what he wrote.
The word to be encoded is the word that I assume everyone has in mind from what has been written before.

Shackleton has been extremely cunning by veiling a hidden layer of meaning, which is what almost everyone is missing here and on the other site. All that is required is some close observation.

Verlaine, you won't be sunk. Encode the four-letter word that you think is the name common to both expeditions. I don't think you will be wrong even if you don't understand the "six each" business.

I'd like to believe that, Dryden, but I'm getting a real vibe that various people have found a different, and unambiguously satisfying, solution to that part of the puzzle!

You're both right. You won't be wrong if you encode the name you're thinking of, but there is a brilliant and ingenious extra layer which makes sense of 'six each'. Focus on D.

There is indeed a four-letter word which is common to both expeditions and codes to an equal number of dots and dashes. And it is not Fram!

Crucifer, I may have found that word too but isn't it (encoded) a bit long?

It is, Verlaine! Forgot the spaces! Back to the drawing board...