29th of May
Historical Antarctic
Pictures and Events
Robert Falcon Scott, British Antarctic Expedition (South Pole Expedition) on the ship Terra Nova, 1910 - 1913.
1911 - Herbert Ponting expedition photographer giving a magic lantern show in the expedition hut of his pictures from Japan. A rarely visited place at the time, transporting the men away from the cold, wind and dark of the Antarctic winter for a while.
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"To-night Ponting gave us a charming lecture on Japan with
wonderful illustrations of his own. He is happiest in his
descriptions of the artistic side of the people, with which
he is in fullest sympathy. So he took us to see the flower
pageants. The joyful festivals of the cherry blossom, the
wistaria, the iris and chrysanthemum, the sombre colours
of the beech blossom and the paths about the lotus gardens,
where mankind meditated in solemn mood. We had pictures,
too, of Nikko and its beauties, of Temples and great Buddhas.
Then in more touristy strain of volcanoes and their craters,
waterfalls and river gorges, tiny tree-clad islets, that
feature of Japan -- baths and their bathers, Ainos, and
so on. His descriptions were well given and we all of us
thoroughly enjoyed our evening." - Scott
Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic Expedition on the ship Nimrod, 1907- 1909.
1909 - A camp at the foot of the Barne Glacier during a journey to lay a depot at Minna Bluff for the attempt on the South Pole.
National Biscuit Day (UK) here's a recipe for some traditional sledging biscuits just like Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen and all the Heroic Age explorers used as man-fuel. To take it further you could use them as a basis for hoosh.
