View looking across very loose pack ice.

Before reaching New Zealand on the outward journey, the Discovery (1901) made a detour south to make magnetic observations. Discovery crossed the 60th parallel on 15 November 1901 and on the evening of 16 November the ship "became closely surrounded by the pack, which consisted of comparatively small pieces of ice from two or three feet in thickness and much worn on edges by the constant movement of the swell". This constituted, what Scott called, the ship's "baptism of ice".

This photograph can also be found in a scrapbook complied by Sir Clements Markham, with other photographs and clippings, about the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-4) held by the Dundee Heritage Trust.