Tag: terra nova expedition
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Discovery Hut Photo Tour
My first full day in Antarctica was the coldest of the whole trip. I noted in my journal that it was -4°F/-20°C – I don’t recall if that was with wind chill or without, but it was definitely windy that day, so you can imagine. The previous day’s flurries were still blowing around, so the…
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The Story of the Discovery Hut
The Discovery Hut is named such because it was built on the Discovery Expedition, in early 1902, when the ship had found its permanent berth in the small inlet at the end of the southernmost peninsula of Ross Island. This was imaginatively dubbed Winter Quarters Bay, and the spit of land adjacent to it was…
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Geography of the Terra Nova
First, an overview of the Antarctic continent. It’s really big. To get a sense of the size, it is larger than Australia; it could fit the U.S. and Mexico together; if you drew a circle around the whole of Europe, that’s roughly the size and shape of the Antarctic continent. Our action revolves around the…