Reference: P2005/5/63

Title: In the ice-pack, from the Main-top of the Terra Nova. (Gran, Taylor and Wright). Dec. 22nd 1910

Description: glass plate negative;Hand written by Ponting: Dec 1910. 42. The floe as seen from the Main-top of the Terra Nova. Hand written in pencil: Duplicate & Triplicate;Hand written on top of envelope: 42B (the B is in purple ink) There is a very faint word in inverted comas behind the 42. Popperfoto label: Scanned V.I.;Box 2: Hand written by Ponting (?) on outside of box lid (on a label which appears to have been torn off): …ONA1 NEGA… Popperfoto label on outside of box: H. Ponting. Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition 1911-1912. 35-72. Hand written on inside of lid: 8. Mr H.G. Ponting, 44 Oxford Mansions, Oxford Circus, W.1. Width 8 inches, height 7 inches, depth 6 inches. 53 negatives in box. Scratched.;Typed label: 42. In the ice-pack, from the Main-top of the Terra Nova. (Gran, Taylor and Wright). Dec. 22nd 1910

Collection: British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Ponting Collection)

Summary text: Three men stand on a yardarm of the ship ‘Terra Nova’. Pack ice extends into the distance.

Date: 22.12.1910

Keywords: sea ice sailing ships

Location: Antarctica, Ross Dependency

Photographer: Ponting, Herbert George