Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1913 / [drawings by] Chas T. Harrisson, artist to the Second Party

Item 01 : Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1913 / [drawings by] Chas T. Harrisson, artist to the Second Party

Charles Turnbull Harrisson diaries, 2 December 1911-12 April 1913, kept while a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

SKETCHBOOK
[i] Shackleton Glacier / King George V Land [map]
[ii] [Contents list compiled by Chas T. Harrisson]
1. A detached streamer of the pack, 31 Dec 1911
2. The midnight dawn of the new year, 1912
3. In the pack, 2 Jan 
4. The coast of Adelie Land, 8 Jan 
5. Ice cliffs of Adelie Land ..., 9 Jan 
6. An Antarctic sunset - in the `pack', 22 Jan 
7. The New Land, sighted on the 23 Jan 
8. [Iceberg] 28 Jan 
9. A capsized berg, 30 Jan 
10. The sunset glow, 31 Jan - ice all darker than the clouds
11. Berg and pack - water-sky and ice-clink, 3 Feb 
12. Evening, on the 65th parallel, S. Lat., 12 Feb 
13. S.Y. Aurora anchored to floe ice, 13 Feb 
14. Our Antarctic home, the `Second Base', 10 Apr 
15. Entrance passage through the snow drift - showing the hatchway ..., 15 May 
16. Unfinished sketch of cave in glacier cliffs ..., 17 May 
17. Entrance passage from verandah, 18 May 
18. A midwinter sunrise - with parhelion, 27 June 
19. Halo, 2 July 
20. After the winter - The `Second Base', 21 Sept 
21. Ski running ..., 28 Oct 
22. The `Hippo' nunatack [i.e. nunatak] ..., 7 Nov 
23. A `hell-hole' in the glacier (crevasse with in-fallen lid), 17 Nov
24. A peep into the great Bergschrund, 19 Nov 
25. Panoramic view from summit of (Delta) Bluff ..., 24 Nov ;  The (Delta) Bluff..., 7 Dec 
26. Ice, in the pressure of the Bergschrund, 25 Nov 
27. `The end of the road' - glacier shattered into open crevasses, 27 Nov 
28. Ice bridge over a cravasse, 27 Nov 
29. A `bad light' (snowy weather), tent-clothes, etc., out to dry, 1 Dec 
30. Entering the Bergschrund pressure - from the eastward, 6 Dec 
31. Evening - a defile in the Bergschrund pressure, 6 Dec 
32. Through the western fringe of the Bergschrund pressure ..., 7 Dec 
33. A nest plundered by the skuas ;  Snow petrels nesting on the (Delta) Bluff,  9 Dec 
34. Glacier descending from the Ice-Cap in cascades of broken ice, 12 Dec ...
35. Mt Davis, from the North, 19 Dec 
36. View southward from Mt Davis ..., 22 Dec 
37. View northward from Mt Davis ..., 22 Dec 
38. The sledger's christmas dinner, 25 Dec 
39. Coast-line, westward, from the (Delta) Channel, 29 Dec 
40. The cliffs of the avalanches, from the west, 31 Dec 
41. In the Bergschrund of the alligator, 2 Jan 1913

DRAWINGS (no.1 Ink ;  nos.2-5 Pencil)
42. Studies of Antarctic bergs, S.Y. Aurora, 13 Jan 1912  
43. Land sighted on the afternoon of the 23rd Jan, 1912 ...
44. Ice barrier sighted Feb 8th, 1912 ...
45. Barrier - of the 13 Feb 1912 ... 
46. Land sighted on the 13th Feb 1912

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