The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 |
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Adams Adelie afternoon altitude Antarctic Barrier birds biscuits blizzard blowing blubber breakfast Brocklehurst Butter Point CALIFORN camp Cape Barne Cape Royds cliff clouds cold cracks crevasses December depot dip circle Discovery expedition distance dogs drift Drygalski Glacier Erebus expedition Fahr February feet finnesko floe going granite Grisi hard hauled heavy hoosh hour Hut Point hypsometer ice-axe ice-foot Island January journey Koonya land latitude lunch Mackay Magnetic Pole Marshall Mawson meal meat miles morning Mount Mount Erebus Mount Larsen mountains nest névé night Nimrod noon open water pack penguin plateau ponies pulling Quan reached ridges rocks rope round sastrugi sea ice seal seemed ship side sledge sleeping-bag Socks soft snow south-east Southern Party started steep supporting-party surface temperature tent thick tide-crack to-day to-night took travelling turned weather weight Wild wind winter quarters yards