Details

Compiled/​Created

19011221-19660000.

Summary note

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.

Notes

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

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on May 28, 2018).

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