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Midnight in the Antarctic summer 30 - 30 Jan 1911
Carbon print | 53 x 74.5 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2580010
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Photograph showing the breaking-up of the ice in McMurdo Sound, taken by the light of the midnight sun. In the middle of the Antarctic summer, the sun does not set and it is visible continually throughout the 24-hour cycle. The closer one is to the Pole, the more days of continuous sunlight there will be. Here Ponting has photographed the sun breaking through the clouds at midnight.
Provenance
Presented to King George V, 1914
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Carbon print
Measurements
53 x 74.5 cm (image) (image)
82.0 x 65.0 cm (whole object)
Alternative title(s)
Midnight in the Antarctic Summer. [The British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 / photographs by H.G. Ponting, F.R.G.S.]. The Summer glory of the midnight sun. [Title in the Great White South ... / H.G. Ponting].