At the turn of the century the British embarked upon a memorable period of exploration, discovery and research in the Far South. This period of intrepid expeditions, now commonly known as the Heroic Era of exploration, presents a complex human drama of Tolstoyan or Shakespearean proportions.
It is all there— light and dark, fire and ice, success and failure, conquest and loss, bravery and cowardice, love and hate, experience and inexperience, humility and pompousness, striving and slackness, knowledge and ignorance.
William Hodges
The Resolution and Adventure,
4 Jan, 1773 taking in ice for water lat. 61.S
Collection: Mitchell Library, SLNSW
Frank Hurley
The efforts of Whetter and Close to get ice for domestic use from the glacier adjacent to the hut, during a blizzard at Cape Denison winter quarters,
c 1912
Collection:
Mitchell Library, SLNSW
Charles T Harrisson
Mt Davis, from the North
Dec. 19th 1912
Collection:
Mitchell Library, SLNSW
