Elephant Island & Beyond by John Thompson

Author:John Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

6 February

A wretched day, high temperatures and snow — everything gets wet in the tents from the snow brought in on one's boots etc, and from the snow under the groundsheet thawing and soaking up. Some of the sleeping bags are wet through in places. The unfortunate member whose turn it is to sleep in the doorway — the worst position in the tent as the continuous traffic in wet weather makes this position very damp - generally has the wettest sleeping bag.

7 February

An extraordinary phenomenon occurred this evening. The stained berg was suddenly seen to be on the move and in less than an hour appeared to have travelled about a mile before it came to rest. Whether it really moved or whether it was only due to our floe slewing round is uncertain, but whichever it was, an ice-movement of considerable magnitude must have taken place in an unusually short time.

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