Christmas Eve in the Pack
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".
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".
Object Details
ID: | LS20 |
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Type: | Lantern slide |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Ponting, Herbert George |
Date made: | 24 December 1910 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall: 82 mm x 82 mm |
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