7th of June
Historical Antarctic
Pictures and Events
Robert Falcon Scott, British Antarctic Expedition (South Pole Expedition) on the ship Terra Nova, 1910 - 1913.
1911 - Edward Wilson. How do you paint watercolours at temperatures well below freezing point? You quickly make notes in pencil wearing thin gloves, then work on the picture later when water is liquid again. Painting notes and a finished work.
1911 - Wilson and Bowers reading the Ramp thermometer. Careful meteorological readings at a range of locations were taken during Scott's expedition that form an important source of baseline weather data becoming more important than could have been imagined at the time.
