Experiences of Scott's Northern Party: evidence for a relationship between winter katabatic winds and the Terra Nova Bay polynya
The six men of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Northern Party were stranded on Inexpressible Island (Fig 1) from late February to September 1912. During that period their lives were profoundly influenced by prevailing surface wind and sea ice conditions in Terra Nova Bay. Members of the party liv...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400004514 2024-05-12T08:06:06+00:00 Experiences of Scott's Northern Party: evidence for a relationship between winter katabatic winds and the Terra Nova Bay polynya Bromwich, David H. Kurtz, Dennis D. 1982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400004514 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400004514 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 21, issue 131, page 137-146 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1982 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400004514 2024-04-18T06:54:20Z The six men of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Northern Party were stranded on Inexpressible Island (Fig 1) from late February to September 1912. During that period their lives were profoundly influenced by prevailing surface wind and sea ice conditions in Terra Nova Bay. Members of the party lived under the most primitive conditions, enduring more than seven months of strong, persistent winds. The western part of Terra Nova Bay remained largely free of ice in 1912, thus preventing the group from leaving until there was sufficient daylight to cross the Drygalski Ice Tongue. This open water, however, may also have assured their survival for it attracted enough seals and penguins to provide them with a continual though limited supply of food. Despite these adverse conditions some of the men, Raymond Priestley in particular, kept detailed journals which provide the only in situ wintertime observations for this area. Analysis of Priestley's wind and ice record provides strong confirmation of our model for the wintertime persistence of open water (a polynya) in Terra Nova Bay. Article in Journal/Newspaper Inexpressible Island Polar Record Sea ice Cambridge University Press Terra Nova Bay Drygalski ENVELOPE(-61.000,-61.000,-64.717,-64.717) Priestley ENVELOPE(161.883,161.883,-75.183,-75.183) Inexpressible Island ENVELOPE(163.650,163.650,-74.900,-74.900) Drygalski Ice Tongue ENVELOPE(163.500,163.500,-75.400,-75.400) Polar Record 21 131 137 146 |
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The six men of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Northern Party were stranded on Inexpressible Island (Fig 1) from late February to September 1912. During that period their lives were profoundly influenced by prevailing surface wind and sea ice conditions in Terra Nova Bay. Members of the party lived under the most primitive conditions, enduring more than seven months of strong, persistent winds. The western part of Terra Nova Bay remained largely free of ice in 1912, thus preventing the group from leaving until there was sufficient daylight to cross the Drygalski Ice Tongue. This open water, however, may also have assured their survival for it attracted enough seals and penguins to provide them with a continual though limited supply of food. Despite these adverse conditions some of the men, Raymond Priestley in particular, kept detailed journals which provide the only in situ wintertime observations for this area. Analysis of Priestley's wind and ice record provides strong confirmation of our model for the wintertime persistence of open water (a polynya) in Terra Nova Bay. |
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Experiences of Scott's Northern Party: evidence for a relationship between winter katabatic winds and the Terra Nova Bay polynya |
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Experiences of Scott's Northern Party: evidence for a relationship between winter katabatic winds and the Terra Nova Bay polynya |
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Experiences of Scott's Northern Party: evidence for a relationship between winter katabatic winds and the Terra Nova Bay polynya |
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Experiences of Scott's Northern Party: evidence for a relationship between winter katabatic winds and the Terra Nova Bay polynya |
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Experiences of Scott's Northern Party: evidence for a relationship between winter katabatic winds and the Terra Nova Bay polynya |
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experiences of scott's northern party: evidence for a relationship between winter katabatic winds and the terra nova bay polynya |
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