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New Year's Day, 1842. Lat.66.32.S Long.156.28.W.

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1842

Artist

John Edward Davis (1815-1877)

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Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

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https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catalogue/article/y59.5.5

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Watercolour by John Edward Davis, second master of HMS Terror, during the British Antarctic Expedition 1839-43.

Appears as an engraving in Sir James Clark Ross's 'A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, 1839-43' (London, 1847), vol 2, pp. 155-56, and J.E. Davis 'A Letter from the Antarctic' (London, 1901), pp. 12-15.

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