Diary kept during Discovery's first winter in Antarctica : Diaries & Journals 19011221-19660000
- Author
- Hare, Clarence Howard
- Published
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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- Summary
- Description: A detailed account of daily events on the voyage and at the ship's winter quarters in the McMurdo Strait. Includes comments on animal and bird life (especially penguins), the climate, and habitats; and descriptions of several sledging expeditions, including an account of the Cape Crozier Expedition of March 1902, in which the author almost lost his life.
- Other Subject(s)
- New Territories
- Life at Sea
- winter quarters, equipment, ice, provisions, flora and fauna, weather, sledge, provisions, astronomy, health and sickness
- Evans, Edward
- Royds, Charles
- Lashly, William
- Scott, Captain Robert Falcon
- Port Chalmers, New Zealand
- Cape Adare
- Victoria Land
- Robertson Bay
- South Pole
- Mount Erebus
- Mount Terror
- Turtle Island
- Parry Mountains
- Note
- AMDigital Reference: qMS-0916.
- Original Version
- Reproduction of: Diary kept during Discovery's first winter in Antarctica 21 Dec 1901-1966.
- Location of Originals
- Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
- Copyright Note
- Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
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