• Title
  Item 05 : Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1913 / [drawings by] Chas T. Harrisson, artist to the Second Party
• Creator
  Chas T. (Charles Turnbull) Harrisson, 1867-1914
• Call number
  PXD 782
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  Dec 1911 - Jan 1913
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  395381
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook (1 map and 41 pastel drawings) - 34.2 x 23 cm.
  5 drawings
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  C.T. Harrisson, born in Hobart, Tasmania joined the Australasian Antarctic Expedition at 43 years of age. He was stationed with the Western Base (Queen Mary Land) he acted as biologist and artist, accompanying F. Wild on his main eastern journey and several other sledging parties
  
  Reference:
  The home of the blizzard / by Sir Douglas Mawson. London : W. Heinemann, 1915 (p.285)
• Scope and Content
  SKETCHBOOK
  [i] Shackleton Glacier / King George V Land [map]
  [ii] [Contents list compiled by Chas T. Harrisson]
  1. A detached streamer of the pack, 31 Dec 1911
  2. The midnight dawn of the new year, 1912
  3. In the pack, 2 Jan
  4. The coast of Adelie Land, 8 Jan
  5. Ice cliffs of Adelie Land ..., 9 Jan
  6. An Antarctic sunset - in the `pack', 22 Jan
  7. The New Land, sighted on the 23 Jan
  8. [Iceberg] 28 Jan
  9. A capsized berg, 30 Jan
  10. The sunset glow, 31 Jan - ice all darker than the clouds
  11. Berg and pack - water-sky and ice-clink, 3 Feb
  12. Evening, on the 65th parallel, S. Lat., 12 Feb
  13. S.Y. Aurora anchored to floe ice, 13 Feb
  14. Our Antarctic home, the `Second Base', 10 Apr
  15. Entrance passage through the snow drift - showing the hatchway ..., 15 May
  16. Unfinished sketch of cave in glacier cliffs ..., 17 May
  17. Entrance passage from verandah, 18 May
  18. A midwinter sunrise - with parhelion, 27 June
  19. Halo, 2 July
  20. After the winter - The `Second Base', 21 Sept
  21. Ski running ..., 28 Oct
  22. The `Hippo' nunatack [i.e. nunatak] ..., 7 Nov
  23. A `hell-hole' in the glacier (crevasse with in-fallen lid), 17 Nov
  24. A peep into the great Bergschrund, 19 Nov
  25. Panoramic view from summit of (Delta) Bluff ..., 24 Nov ; The (Delta) Bluff..., 7 Dec
  26. Ice, in the pressure of the Bergschrund, 25 Nov
  27. `The end of the road' - glacier shattered into open crevasses, 27 Nov
  28. Ice bridge over a cravasse, 27 Nov
  29. A `bad light' (snowy weather), tent-clothes, etc., out to dry, 1 Dec
  30. Entering the Bergschrund pressure - from the eastward, 6 Dec
  31. Evening - a defile in the Bergschrund pressure, 6 Dec
  32. Through the western fringe of the Bergschrund pressure ..., 7 Dec
  33. A nest plundered by the skuas ; Snow petrels nesting on the (Delta) Bluff, 9 Dec
  34. Glacier descending from the Ice-Cap in cascades of broken ice, 12 Dec ...
  35. Mt Davis, from the North, 19 Dec
  36. View southward from Mt Davis ..., 22 Dec
  37. View northward from Mt Davis ..., 22 Dec
  38. The sledger's christmas dinner, 25 Dec
  39. Coast-line, westward, from the (Delta) Channel, 29 Dec
  40. The cliffs of the avalanches, from the west, 31 Dec
  41. In the Bergschrund of the alligator, 2 Jan 1913
  
  DRAWINGS (no.1 Ink ; nos.2-5 Pencil)
  42. Studies of Antarctic bergs, S.Y. Aurora, 13 Jan 1912
  43. Land sighted on the afternoon of the 23rd Jan, 1912 ...
  44. Ice barrier sighted Feb 8th, 1912 ...
  45. Barrier - of the 13 Feb 1912 ...
  46. Land sighted on the 13th Feb 1912
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  No. 35 reproduced in: A history of Antarctica / Stephen Martin. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1996 (p.144)
• General note
  
  Related manuscript material: Diaries, 2 Dec 1911 - 12 Apr 1913, kept by Harrisson while a member of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Location number: Z MLMSS 386 (microfilm reel CY 1188, frames 1-294).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 946525
• Name
  Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914)
  
• Topic
  
  exploration
  
• Place
  Antarctica.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Antarctic journeys - State Library of New South Wales (2 September - 24 November, 1996)
  Lines on the Ice : Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 - State Library of New South Wales (July 2002 - October 2002). Applies to: Nos.24,28,31
  Finding Antarctica - State Library of New South Wales (November, 2011 - February, 2012)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1089972

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