aseron, Close; front
row, Stillwell, Hunter, Correll, Murphy
"Wireless" Corner in the workshop. Our link with civilization
The "Aurora" anchored to the floe off the western base
The establishment of the western base. Hauling stores to the top of the
ice-shelf
The western base hut in winter. Note the entrance; a vertical hole in
the snow in the foreground
The western base hut--The Grottoes--in summer
An evening camp, Queen Mary Land
A man-hauled sledge
In the veranda of the western base hut--The "Grottoes"--looking towards
the entrance dug vertically down through the snow drift
The wind-weathered igloo built for magnetic observations--western base
Nunatak--Queen Mary Land: showing remarkable moat on windward side and
ramp on lee
Midwinter's dinner in Queen Mary Land, 1912. From left to right:
Behind--Hoadley, Dovers, Watson, Harrisson, Wild. In Front--Jones,
Moyes, Kennedy
A bevy of Emperor penguins on the floe
A yawning crevasse
Wild's party making slow progress in dangerous country
Wild, Kennedy, and Harrisson amongst the abysses of the Denman glacier
"The whole was the wildest, maddest and yet the grandest thing
imaginable"
Wild's party working their sledges through the crushed ice at the foot
of Denman glacier
The Hippo Nunatak
Dog-sledging
Where the floe-ice meets the Shackleton Shelf
The hummocky floe on the southern margin of the Davis Sea
View showing the young birds massed together at the Emperor penguins'
rookery at Haswell Island
Antarctic petrels on the nest
A Snow petrel chick on the nest
A Silver-Grey petrel on the nest
The symmetrically domed outline of Drygalski Island, low on the horizon.
The island is 1200 feet high and 9 miles in diameter
The main western party on their return to the "Grottoes." from the left:
Hoadley, Jones and Dovers
Blizzard-harassed penguins, after many days buried in the snow
The pancake ice under the cliffs at Land's End
A wonderful canopy of ice
Sastrugi sculptured by the incessant blizzards
The terminal moraine, near the hut, Cape Denison
Disappearing in the drift
The hut looming through the drift
A wall of solid gneiss near winter quarters
An erratic on the moraine. Cape Denison
Frozen spray built up by the blizzards along the shore
A view of the mainland from the Mackellar Islets: ice-capped islets in
the foreground: the rock visible on the mainland is Cape Denison
A Wilson petrel on
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