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PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE) "The 'Terra Nova' in McMurdo Sound", [January, 1911]
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PONTING (HERBERT GEORGE)
Footnotes
Fine Art Society Exhibition, No. 25, "...shows a berg in the last stage of decay...in this condition the ice frequently assumes the most beautiful shapes imaginable...".
"During those midnight days, when others slept and only the night watch and I were awake, some of the most memorable of my Antarctic experiences befell me. It was in those 'night' hours, too, as the sun paraded round the southern heavens, that I secured some of the best of my Polar studies. One of these was 'The Death of an Iceberg' [alternative title to our image]-- which represents a berg in the last stage of decay, from the action of the sun and currents" (H.G. Ponting, The Great White South, 1924, p.69).
Provenance: Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), the lead geologist on the Terra Nova Expedition. A 13-line pencil note about the picture is loose mounted on the verso of the frame. Griffiths notes that "in the distance are the peaks of the Royal Society Range (in the SW corner of the Ross Sea)... in foreground the effects of the sun on a fringe of land ice...".



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