Expedition photographs

Loaded motor-tractor sledges beside the expedition hut

Historical record

Cataloged expedition photograph: Day secures the load on one of three loaded sledges standing on the ice. Hut in background.

What this record establishes

Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.

Original title: Loaded sledge for one of the motor tractors, on the sea ice, by the Winterquarters Hut. October 1911
Artifact date: 10.1911
Creator: Ponting, Herbert George
Holding institution: Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

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institutional or documentary recordhttps://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/collection/photos-british-antarctic-expedition-1910-13-ponting-collection/p2005-5-570

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Scottish expedition photograph.
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Scottish expedition photograph.