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Andrew Keith Jack, Irvine Owen Gaze and others in the Ross Sea party took striking photographs during their time in Antarctica. Jack later compiled the hand coloured glass lantern slides, all of which are now kept in the Victorian State Library.
Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack and Alex Gunn, 'Camp on the Great Ross Ice Barrier, Antarctica', 1914-1917, State Library Victoria
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This photograph was probably taken during the January 1915 depot laying journey.
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
Slide maker; Alex Gunn
Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
Dimensions 8.7 x 8.7 cm
Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack and Alex Gunn, ''Aurora' in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica', 1914-1917, State Library of Victoria
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'Aurora' in McMurdo Sound waiting for the break-up of the ice.
This photograph was probably taken soon after arrival in Antarctica in late January 1915 whilst disembarking stores for first depot laying journeys.
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
Slide maker; Alex Gunn
Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
Dimensions 8.7 x 8.7 cm
Photograph - John King Davis, 'John Lachlan Cope Standing on the Deck of a Ship', c. 1907 - 1931, State Library Victoria
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Andrew Keith Jack notes John King Davis as the compiler of this photograph. Davis (1884-1967) was a notable Antarctic navigator and Captain of the Aurora on the January 1917 relief mission that rescued the Ross Sea Party.
John Lachlan Cope was born in 1893 died in 1947. He was appointed to the Ross Sea Party as biologist and acted as medical officer. He struggled with the isolation of the party and spent much time in bed, described in Jack's diaries:
March 14th 1916
Cope still remains in his bunk the greater part of his time… he says he is not ill and if this is so it seems a most unnatural existence.
June 18th 1916
Cope too only gets up for dinner each day – wonder what can be wrong with him.
Cope later tried to organise the British Imperial Expedition to Graham Land 1920-1922. Despite grand aims the expedition set out with only 4 men and no ship (they hitched a ride with a whaler) and landed on the west side of Graham Land.
Exasperated Hubert Wilkins abandoned the expedition and Cope also returned almost immediately to South America. Max Charles Lester and Thomas Bagshawe stayed for a year in an abandoned boat completing a scientific program before being transported back by a whaler.
Cope qualified as a doctor in 1933 in Britain and went on to work as a GP.
Map - Andrew Keith Jack, 'Route of the 'Aurora'', 1914-1917, State Library Victoria
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The origins of the map are uncertain.
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
Glass lantern slide
Dimensions: 8.7 x 8.7 cm
Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'After Three Months at Hut Pt.', 1914-1917, State Library Victoria
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Portrait of Keith Jack after three months at Hut Point. In early 1915 Jack, together with Mackintosh, Joyce, Haywood, Cope, and Wild were stranded for several months in the cramped hut at Hut Point on the southern end of Ross Island.
They were waiting for the sea ice to freeze so they could walk the 25 kilometres to Cape Evans, having missed their ship the Aurora which picked up the other men in the Ross Sea Party from the hut on 11th March, just three days earlier.
This photo would have been taken around May 1915. The party were finally able to cross the ice to Cape Evans on 2 June 1915.
The hut at Hut Point was built by Robert Scott’s 1901-1904 expedition and was in very poor repair, making conditions for the Ross Sea Party difficult.
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
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Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'The Hut, C. Evans [Cape Evans] Ross Island', 1914-1917, State Library Victoria
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This was the hut built by Robert Scott’s expedition of 1910-1913. The Ross Sea Party used it as their main base. Left over stores and equipment from Scott's expedition were used by the Ross Sea Party after the loss of the Aurora.
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Glass lantern slide
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Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack and Alex Gunn, ''Aurora' at Winter Quarters at Cape Evans', 1914-1917, State Library of Victoria
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The Ross Sea Party planned to securely anchor Aurora and ice it in over the winter. The crew would remain on the ship whilst the stores party would live at the Cape Evans Hut.
The ship was secured with anchors and chains some 40 metres off shore. On 6 May 1915 she was torn from her moorings in a ferocious storm. The ship was carried northwards with the ice and finally broke free from the ice in March 1916, reaching New Zealand in April 1916.
The stores party were left stranded with few supplies, not knowing the fate of the ship: whether it had sunk or not. In 1917 the Aurora returned for the men, captained by John King Davis, with Shackleton on board.
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
Slide maker; Alex Gunn
Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
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Photograph - 'The Return of the Sun, Antarctica', Andrew Keith Jack, 1915, State Library of Victoria
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Keith Jack notes in his diary that the first glimpse of the sun above the horizon was 22nd August 1915. This photo is probably taken a short time after that date.
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
Dimensions 8.7 x 8.7 cm
Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack and Alex Gunn, 'Barne Glacier looking NW from Cape Evans', 1914-1917, State Library Victoria
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Looking northwest from Cape Evans. The Barne Glacier descends along the west slopes of Mount Erebus and forms an ice cliff on the west side of Ross Island, between Cape Barne and Cape Evans. It is named for Michael Barne, the officer on Robert Scott’s Discovery expedition, 1901-04.
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
Slide maker; Alex Gunn
Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
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Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack and Alex Gunn, 'Adelie Penguin', 1914-1917, State Library of Victoria
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Seals were the main source of fresh meat (and blubber for fuel for the fire) for the Ross Sea Party. Penguins also supplemented their diet.
This supply of fresh meat both complemented their meagre food supplies and staved off scurvy. The men also ate penguin eggs, a welcome delicacy amidst their usually grim diet. In 1916 they collected a staggering 3150 eggs from Cape Royds rookery (Ross Island).
On the day of rescue Keith Jack noted with relief in his diary: '...no more slaughtering of innocent seals...'
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
Slide maker; Alex Gunn
Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
Dimensions 8.7 x 8.7 cm
Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'Grounded Berg Cape Evans', 1914-1917, State Library of Victoria
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Grounded berg Cape Evans.
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Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'Ice Flowers Growing on Sea Ice', 1914-1917, State Library of Victoria
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Ice-flowers growing on Sea-ice.
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Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'Adelies [i.e. Adelie penguins] at Cape Evans', 1914-1917, State Library of Victoria
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Adelie penguins at Cape Evans.
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Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'Cross erected at Cape Evans to lost comrades', 1914-1917, State Library of Victoria
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This cross was erected at Cape Evans by Wild and Jack on 16 January in memory of the three deceased members of the party: the Ross Sea Party commander Aeneas Mackintosh, the party's official photographer Reverend Arnold Spencer-Smith, and general assistant Victor George Hayward.
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Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
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Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack and Alex Gunn, ''Bosun' Paton last man to leave (relief)', 1914-1917, State Library of Victoria
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James Paton (1869-1917) on the ice just prior to Aurora leaving the Antarctic after the relief of the stores party.
Paton was an Antarctic veteran. He was on the crew of Morning when it relieved Scott’s party in 1902, on the Nimrod transporting Shackelton’s expedition to and from the Ross Sea, and was boatswain on Aurora.
He was on the last voyage of the Aurora from Newcastle NSW destined for Chile with a cargo of coal when she was lost with all hands.
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
Slide maker; Alex Gunn
Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
Dimensions 8.7 x 8.7 cm
Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'Rescued party Shackleton and Capt. Davis', January 1917, State Library of Victoria
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From left: Keith Jack, Alexander Stevens, Dick Richards, Ernest Wild, Irvine Gaze, Ernest Joyce, John Cope, Ernest Shackleton, John King Davis, and surviving sled dog Oscar.
Jack wrote in his diary of the rescue: 'Then came my first meal on board - real fresh mutton. I ate and ate and wished I could eat more. Oranges too and fresh potatoes... I fell as if I want to sleep and sleep and dream. Everything seems to strange.'
Compiler; Andrew Keith Jack
Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
Dimensions 8.7 x 8.7 cm
Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'Mt Wellington N.Z. Gaze and Joyce (sitting), self [possibly photographer] and Richards (standing), holding three dogs', February 1917, State Library of Victoria
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Jack and Richards standing, Gaze and Joyce sitting, with dogs Gunboat, Towser and Oscar.
These three dogs were the survivors of the trek to the Beardmore Glacier in early 1916. A fourth dog, Con, was killed in a fight with the other dogs in July 1916 after they returned to Cape Evans.
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Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'Tide Gauge', 1914-1917, State Library of Victoria
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Keith Jack had great skill at fashioning scientific instruments, including a tide gauge.
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Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
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Photograph - Andrew Keith Jack, 'Tide Trace', January 1917, State Library of Victoria
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Recorded measurements from 1st of January 1917. Even this late in the expedition the scientific program was maintained.
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Glass lantern slide, hand coloured
Dimensions 8.7 x 8.7 cm
