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TERRA NOVA, Antarctic Expedition, photograph
Black & white photograph of a page from a book showing "Cape Royds, looking North". View of someone standing on a rocky outcrop looking out over a flat icescape. Reverse of photograph annotated "Behind which was Shackleton's hut" and "Scott's last journey". Undated.
S.Y. TERRA NOVA. Auxiliary barque of 764 tons, was built by Messrs Alexander Stephens and Sons, Dundee in 1884 for the whaling trade. Although nearly thirty years old at the time of Captain Scott's expedition, she was chosen for it because of her suitability for work in the Antarctic ice. Her beams were fourteen ins thick, her bows were nine feet of solid wood, and her stem was sheathed with iron plating.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
89.196I/12
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Scott, Robert Falcon (Capt)
Association Type: associated person
Association Type: place name
Date: 1910-1913
Acquisition
Collected officially, 11/1989
Measurements
Length
(mm): 109
Width
(mm): 80
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
card
Location
In store
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