Expedition photographs
Terra Nova stopped by pack ice
Historical recordCataloged expedition photograph: View of ship ‘Terra Nova’, some sails set, over pack ice.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Original title
- The Terra Nova held up for the first time (this expedition) in the ice. Dec. 11th 1910
- Artifact date
- 11.12.1910
- 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 published frontispiece, The Terra Nova Ice-bound. It documents the same expedition vessel in ice from a different angle, not the broadside exposure catalogued by SPRI as the first ice stoppage on 11 December 1910. No exact date or identity of the ice-stoppage event is inferred for this alternate photograph.
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. Frontispiece; original printed caption refers to text p. 38.
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/n9/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/p2005-5-15
- institutional or documentary recordhttps://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/collection/photos-british-antarctic-expedition-1910-13-ponting-collection/p2005-5-15
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