The Aurora Australis, from the 'South Polar Times'

A photographic reproduction of an illustration by Dr E A Wilson printed in an unknown edition of the 'South Polar' Times'. It shows the ship on the lift in the middle distance, but over the mountain range on (South) Victoria Land is the Aurora Australis.

Object Details

ID: ALB0346.27
Type: Photographic print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Shackleton, Ernest Henry; Wilson, Edward Adrian
Vessels: Discovery (1901)
Date made: 23 April 1902-March 1903
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bernard Collection
Measurements: Overall: 78 mm x 103 mm
Parts: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1903 (Photograph album)