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C1923
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910 (Terra Nova) Ma…
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Scarce c.20th map with three insets maps and a view of Granite Harbour, from the resulting mapping of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to Antarctica 1910-1913. Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition and his ambition was to be the first … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910 (Terra Nova) Ma…
Date:
C1923
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued. Laid on archival linen.
Technique:
Lithograph printed in colour.
Image Size:
683mm
x 442mm
Paper Size:
718mm
x 480mm
AUTHENTICITY
Guaranteed Vintage Item
dated:
1923
Description:
Scarce c.20th map with three insets maps and a view of Granite Harbour, from the resulting mapping of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to Antarctica 1910-1913. Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition and his ambition was to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole.
Titles of the three maps and view are;
The Inner Harbour, Granite Harbour.
Plane Table Map of-Cuff Cape, Granite Harbour.
Plane Table Map of-Devil’s Punchbowl, Granite Harbour.
Panorama Sketch of Glacier Tongue from Point 1,600 on Discovery Bluff.
The Terra Nova Expedition, also known as the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913), led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, aimed to conduct scientific research and reach the geographic South Pole. They reached the pole on January 17, 1912, only to discover that a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had beaten them by 34 days. Tragically, Scott and his four companions perished during their return journey from the pole.
The map was made by the Australian geologist, Frank Debenham. Debenham began his geological and cartographical work on the western side of McMurdo Sound, where he visited the Koettlitz and Ferrar glacier, and the foothills of the Royal Society Range. An injury to his knee playing football in the snow prevented him from going on the ill-fated polar attempt, going instead to the Mackay Glacier and Granite Harbour. His party explored and mapped some 100 miles of coastline, extending in places up to 30 miles inland. One of his most significant contributions to the Terra Nova expedition “was his expertise in plane-table mapping. He convinced Scott and other members of the expedition of its value not only at base camps but also on sledge journeys. Scott in his diary recorded that Debenham was ‘a well-trained, sturdy worker, with a quiet meaning that carries conviction; he realises the conceptions of thoroughness and conscientiousness’
Collections:
State Library New South Wales: Call Numbers: Q989.8/D
State Library South Australia: 998.9 D286 c
National Library New Zealand: P q919.9 BRI 1923
York University Library: Call number GA 257 D43
Frank Debenham (1883 - 1965)
Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, Cambridge University and first director of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Debenham was born in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia in December 1883 and attended university in 1908, studying geology under Sir Edgeworth David. In 1910 he was one of a group of three geologists on Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913). From January to March 1911 Debenham, along with three other expedition members (Thomas Griffith Taylor, Charles Wright (physicist) and Edgar Evans), explored and mapped the western mountains of Victoria Land (the western journey) performing scientific studies and geological observations. He did not take part in the ill-fated journey to the South pole due to a knee injury sustained while playing football in the snow, and instead took part in the second western journey along with Griffith Taylor, Tryggve Gran and William Forde. On his return from the expedition in 1913, he entered Cambridge University to write up his field notes. During World War I, he was a lieutenant with the 7th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Serving in France and Salonika, Debenham was severely wounded in August 1916. He married Dorothy Lucy Lempriere in January 1917 and was awarded the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 1919. The same year he went to Cambridge where he became a fellow of Gonville and Caius College and lecturer in cartography. In 1920, with the help of surplus funds raised by public donations in response to the tragedy, Debenham co-founded the Scott Polar Research Institute (Cambridge University) with Raymond Priestley, as a repository of polar information and a centre from which future expeditions could draw on support and experience. Debenham had developed the idea of such a learning centre in 1912 while in Antarctica. He was unpaid director of the Institute from 1920 to 1946. As director of the institute, Debenham, in conjunction with Priestley and one of Shackleton's Endurance scientists, James Wordie, made Cambridge the centre of polar research in Britain. In 1931, Debenham was appointed Professor of Geography at Cambridge University. During World War II he trained service cadets, lectured to Royal Air Force navigators and devised relief-model techniques for briefing commandos. Author of "Astrographics: First Steps in Navigation by the Stars", the 2 editions in 1942 were important works for the R.A.F.'s forthcoming Bomber offensive against the 3rd Reich. He was vice-president of the Royal Geographical Society (1951–53) and was awarded their Victoria Medal in 1948.
