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Antartica, South Pole, Artifacts
From the Charleroi Mail Newspaper,
Charleroi PA, May 2, 1914, page unknown:
CURIOS FROM SOUTH POLE
Geologists and Students of World Physics Welcome Collection Recently
Received in England.
Representative selection from the various objects brought home by the
scientific staff attached to the Scott Antarctic expedition is now on exhibit
at the British Natural History museum, South Kensington. The objects
include the rock fragments brought back to Britain 11 miles of One Ton depot
by Dr. Wilson. These fragments are from Buckley Island, or Mount Buckley,
which appears out of the ice cap where the glacier begins to descend toward
the barrier ice.
No photo found online for Mount Buckley in Antarctica. Photo added here
from book.
Source:
Cherry-Garrard,
Apsley.The Worst
Journey In The World, Volumes 1 And 2: Antarctic 1910-1913.London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922.
[Archived on Gutenburg]
See also:
The British Natural History museum, South Kensington.
This "island" as it were parts of the steam of ice. [sic=sentence
fragment] There appear to be other summits entirely buried beneath the
ice stream. The fragments all us of warm weather conditions, of Devonian
fishes which swam gayly [sic] in the waters of a remote period when the polar
area was far different from what it is now. These fragments are of the
highest importance to geologists and students of world physics. Among
other interesting objects is the skin of a young Weddell seal. The fur
is of an attractive light brown color. The birds brought home by the
expedition are not yet stuffed. One is a very fine emperor penguin,
whole breast feathers glisten under the electric light. A gray-headed
mollymauk is another fine bird. The only known insect (wingless) proper
to the Antarctica is also shown. There are two sponges from the ice seas
of Antarctica.
Researched by
Judith Florian
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