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The track through the ice pack, Antarctic Ocean.
The track created by the Sir James Clark Ross (1905) pushing through the thin pack ice, as it made its way through to the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
It is not known when this photograph was taken. However, on the outward journey Villiers describes the pack ice as 'one great solid flat surface bathed in a glaring white light most trying on the eyes, stretching away on every side to the distant horizon' [p57, Whaling in the Frozen South, 1931 edn]. They encountered the pack ice on 13 December, which became 'hummocked' pack by 17 December 1923.
It is not known when this photograph was taken. However, on the outward journey Villiers describes the pack ice as 'one great solid flat surface bathed in a glaring white light most trying on the eyes, stretching away on every side to the distant horizon' [p57, Whaling in the Frozen South, 1931 edn]. They encountered the pack ice on 13 December, which became 'hummocked' pack by 17 December 1923.
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Object Details
| ID: | N83415 |
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| Type: | Sheet film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Villiers, Alan John |
| Date made: | 1923-1924 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Alan Villiers Collection |