Coloured lantern slide of a solitary penguin on the ice with broken ice floes in the background.

In his book, 'The Great White South', Herbert Ponting wrote that "not a breath of wind ruffled the surface of the sea, on [that] most wonderful of all Christmas Eves. In its limpid mirror every cumulus or loafing cirrus in the heavens was faithfully imaged. A lone Adelie penguin jumped out of the looking-glass and stood on the floe for an hour, blinking at the ship in wonder, until, warmed by the grateful rays of the midnight sun and lulled by the silence that prevailed, it tucked its head under its flipper, and roosted where it stood".

This is a colourised lanternslide of the negative P2005/5/920, Title: Xmas Eve in the pack. Dec 24th 1910, held at the Scott Polr Research Institute, as the original reference number A13a is recorded on both.