In the pack. Sky reflection.

An image showing 'ALB1217.4; In the ice-pack, from the main-top of the Terra Nova (Gran, Taylor & Wright on yard), Dec. 22 1910. [NMM Negative number P39497 (from another source)]'

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A view from the discovery ship Terra Nova (1884) looking over loose pack ice with a number of large open leads of clear water. On the floe to the left is an Adelie penguin, a number of which had visited the area around the ship diving for food. The water is so still that the clouds are reflecting clearly in the water.

The print has a typed caption: 'In the pack. Sky reflection.'

Scott's diary notes that on 28 December 'The sky began to clear in the middle watch [midnight to 4am]; now we have bright, cheerful, warm sunshine...' The ship was then '...amongst floes of decidedly smaller area and the pack has loosened considerably.' [Scott's Last expedition. The Journals, (1984 edition) page 49]

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Object Details

ID:	ALB1217.4
Type:	Photographic print
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Ponting, Herbert George
Vessels:	Terra Nova (1884)
Date made:	28 December 1910
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 113 mm x 161 mm
Parts:	British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13, covering the period 1910-11 (Photograph album) The Terra Nova (1884) held up in the pack ice (Photographic print) (ALB1217.1) The Terra Nova (1884) held up in the pack ice (Photographic print) (ALB1217.2) Lead opening and shadow of bowsprit. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.3) In the pack. Sky reflection. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.4) In the ice-pack, from the Main-top of the Terra Nova. (Gran, Taylor and Wright). (Photographic print) (ALB1217.5) Group of scientists and officers in Wardroom of Terra Nova. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.6) Ross Sea. Cloud effect. 7pm (Photographic print) (ALB1217.7) View of the Barrier at 1.45p.m. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.8) Mount Erebus taken from Terra Nova (1884) (Photographic print) (ALB1217.9) Mount Bird taken from Terra Nova (1884) (Photographic print) (ALB1217.10) Grotto berg with Taylor in the foreground. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.11) Male and Femal Skua Gulls (Photographic print) (ALB1217.12) A Skua Gull with their chick (Photographic print) (ALB1217.13) A Skua Gull regurgitating food for their chick (Photographic print) (ALB1217.14) Six Adelie penguins resting on the ice. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.15) Four expedition members having lunch in a tent. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.16) Captain Scott, Dr. Wilson and Commander Evans walking across the ice floe to Terra Nova (1884) (Photographic print) (ALB1217.17) Skua Gulls on the breaking ice floes. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.18) Detail of the sea-ice breaking up (Photographic print) (ALB1217.19) Davies, the carpenter, working on the hut. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.20) Cumulus clouds over the Barne Glacier (Photographic print) (ALB1217.21) A dog-sledge team with Erebus in the background (Photographic print) (ALB1217.22) Erebus and stranded berg. Made just when ship struck. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.23) Terra Nova (1884) lying off Barne Glacier (Photographic print) (ALB1217.24) Erebus and dome cloud from West Beach, 2.30pm. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.25) Bergs and floe off Cape Evans. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.26) North Beach, Camp and Erebus from the west (Photographic print) (ALB1217.27) Weathered ice after blizzard at Cape Evans, looking to Castle Rock. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.28) Weathered ice after blizzard at Cape Evans, and crevasse, looking towards Turks Head. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.29) Young pancake ice forming at West Beach. Erebus in background. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.30) Mirage of Cape Barne and Glacier. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.31) Capt. Scott. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.32) Dr. Wilson, Cherry-Garrard and Ford with a sea leopard on sledge. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.33) Hut and Mt. Erebus photographed by moonlight. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.34) Midwinter Day dinner (Photographic print) (ALB1217.35) Dr. Wilson, Lieut. Bowers and Cherry-Garrard on return from winter trip to Cape Crozier. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.36) Capt. Scott, Simpson, Bowers and Evans leaving for the West Mts. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.37) Huge ice bastions of the Castle Berg (Clissold). (Photographic print) (ALB1217.38) North Bay and Camp from the east. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.39) Capt. Scott in his den. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.40) Capt. Scott at the ice crack. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.41) Hut Point and Vince Cross looking south. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.42) Adelie penguin track and sledge track crossing. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.43) Church Berg and seals. (Photographic print) (ALB1217.44) Cloud effect over Barne Glacier (Cumulus). (Photographic print) (ALB1217.45)