In Antarctica found a picture of a member of the expedition of Robert Scott
The officers of the new Zealand trust “the Heritage of Antarctica” (Antarctic Heritage Trust) found in the hut at Cape Adare figure made by one of the members of the expedition Robert Falcon Scott, Explorer and artist Edward Wilson. He, along with Scott and three other members of the expedition reached the South pole and died on the way back.
About the discovery reported in a press release.
British Antarctic expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott took place in the years 1910-13. The scientific aim of the expedition was study of Victoria Land, West of the foothills of the Transantarctic mountains and the Land of Edward VII. The research was led by Wilson. But the main purpose was political — the discovery of the South pole. According to the plan of the expedition was supposed to work in three seasons with two winterings. The trek to the South pole was scheduled for a second season. It was assumed that its preparation will involve all members of the team (65 persons), directly in the field will work 12 people, and four of them, led by Scott, will go to the pole and back, using intermediate warehouses with supplies and fuel. As a result, in the pole group consisted of five people, including Scott himself and Wilson.
Members of the expedition completed a program of geological, magnetic and meteorology studies, collected numerous geological samples and tested the various modes of transport, including motor sledges and air probes to study the atmosphere.
As you know, my main goal of the expedition had not complied with the Norwegians, under the leadership of Roald Amundsen reached the South pole 34 days before. On 17 January 1912 Scott’s group reached the pole and turned back. On the way back, people suffered from frostbite and snow blindness. Sometimes participants did not reach the following stock of food and fuel, they had to starve. In early March, they found a dire shortage of kerosene, which according to one version, was evaporated from leaking cans, the other flowed from them, because tin ration cans scattered frost. On 23 March the team ran out of fuel, food remained for two days. The last entry in Scott’s diary was dated March 29. The bodies of the participants in the polar group was discovered search expedition in November 1912.
A special find for the team @InspireExplore an almost perfectly preserved 118-year old watercolour painting found in #Antarctica pic.twitter.com/NcKuIhh6na
— Antarctic Heritage (@InspireExplore) 13 Jun 2017
Watercolor drawing made by Wilson, was found in the fall of 2016 in the hut at Cape Adare, located in Victoria Land. Cape Adair often served as the first explorers of the continent as a place of landing and first winter. The hut was built by Norwegian researchers in 1899, and the members of the expedition Scott held the winter of 1911-1912 years. Currently the hut is recognized as an important historical monument.
Employees the trust has cleared one of the huts and among the penguin droppings, dust and mold found well-preserved watercolor. It preserved the name of a genus of birds “Tree Creeper” — pika and the date 1899.
Edward Wilson (1872-1912) — zoologist, physician-physiologist and painter, was a member of two Arctic expeditions of Robert Scott. The first of these, held in the 1901-1904 years, Wilson participated as assistant physician, zoologist, and a full-time artist. During the expedition he drew many of the representatives of the local fauna. Some of his works are now kept at the art gallery in his home town of Cheltenham in West England.
Ekaterina Rusakova