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The Cape Crozier party before journey
Slide, lantern slide depicting a black and white image of (left to right) Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Edward Wilson (chief of scientific staff) and Apsley Cherry-Gerrard (assistant zoologist) setting out to Cape Crozier to study a breeding colony of Emperor Penguins on 27th June 1911.The journey was described by Cherry-Gerrard as 'the worst journey in the world', with a temperature of - 61oC. They survived and returned with three penguin eggs intact. Part of a collection of fifty eight slides depicting scenes from various Antarctic expeditions.
| Number: | ROY.30.2.9 |
| Name: | The Cape Crozier party before journey |
| Date: | 1910 |
| Maker: | Stanley, W.F., |
| Location: | In Store |
