Expedition photographs
Ice after a blizzard at Cape Evans
Historical recordCataloged expedition photograph: View towards sea over ice in foreground. Ice floes and icebergs in distance.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Original title
- Weathered ice after blizzard at Cape Evans, looking to Castle Rock. March 8th 1911
- Artifact date
- 3.1911
- Creator
- Ponting, Herbert George
- Holding institution
- Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Scope of evidence
The record establishes artifact provenance, not modern speculative Antarctic claims.
Ponting’s Ice Furrows After a Blizzard, published with his account of spray freezing into furrows at South Bay, Cape Evans. Same specific coastal ice-feature subject and expedition, but a different exposure from SPRI p2005/5/319. The target’s 8 March 1911 date and precise view toward Castle Rock are not asserted for this image.
Herbert G. Ponting, The Great White South (New York: R. M. McBride & Co., 1922). Library of Congress scan via Internet Archive. Public domain.
This is a different published exposure, not the catalogued SPRI photograph. The target photograph’s exact date is not established for this alternate. The SPRI image is linked separately and not reproduced. Plate facing printed p. 106; lower photograph. Adjacent p. 106 locates the described furrows at South Bay, Cape Evans. Upper supporting-page image is separately captioned pancake floes.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
Public domain. Library of Congress item 23026514 explicitly states this digitized book is free to use and reuse; matching Internet Archive metadata identifies the LOC scan and reports no known copyright restrictions. The selected photographs were published in 1922; photographer Herbert G. Ponting died in 1935. This clearance applies to the independent historical book scan, not to SPRI digitizations.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- displayed image provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://archive.org/details/greatwhitesouthb01pont/page/n208/mode/1up
- image-specific reuse conditionshttps://www.loc.gov/item/23026514/#rights-and-access
- documentary target record; may differ from displayed reproductionhttps://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/collection/photos-british-antarctic-expedition-1910-13-ponting-collection/p2005-5-319
- institutional or documentary recordhttps://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/collection/photos-british-antarctic-expedition-1910-13-ponting-collection/p2005-5-319
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