Weddell Sea

Date: 1781-1810, 1994

By: Bernard Quaritch Ltd

Reference: MS-Papers-5003

Description: Contains biographical material about James Weddell, a copy of the `Dictionary of National Biography' article on him, and a description of the James Weddell archive held by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Also contains photographs of material held, including manuscripts, maps, a portrait of Weddell, Weddell's drawing of a sea leopard of South Orkneys and a painting of the `Jane' and the `Beaufoy' in the Antarctic Ocean in 1823. Source of title - supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript and photographs Provenance: John Brown, a friend of James Weddell, collected an archive of material relating to him. Brown's son, John Allen Brown, presented the collection to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. In 1993 the Society decided to sell the collection and it was passed to Bernard Quaritch Ltd who provided the Alexander Turnbull Library these papers and photographs relating to the material for sale. The Library did not make an offer for the papers.

Date: 1914-1916

By: Orde-Lees, Thomas Hans, 1877-1958; Orde-Lees, Hisako Hoya, active 1932-1962

Reference: MS-Group-2416

Description: Journal gives full account of the voyage from England to South Georgia, the loss of the Endurance in the pack ice, and life on Elephant Island during the wait for rescue. Lacks entries for 25 Jun 1915-8 Jan 1916. Many photographs. Material also includes photographs and newsclippings concerned with the early development of parachutes. Publication - The Orde Lees diaries have now been published - John Thomson `Elephant Island and beyond. The Life and diaries of Thomas Orde Lees', 2003. Orde Lees was seconded by the Admiralty to Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917. He was the motor expert and later store-keeper. Quantity: 13 folder(s). 6 volume(s). 1 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs with annotations, photographs and printed matter Holograph and typescript (photocopy) (35cm; blue linen tie cases) Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs Orde Lees, Wellington, 1962 Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Orde-Lees, Thomas Hans, 1877-1958: Photographs (PA-Group-01014). Includes drawings, diagrams and photographs Processing information: Archivists notes - qMS-1149-1153 were photocopied from originals held by Mrs Orde-Lees, of Wellington in 1962

Date: 1910 - 1936 - 1998 - 1913

Reference: Eph-A-ANTARCTICA-Cards

Description: John Player & Sons. Polar exploration. 2nd series of 25. [Complete set. 1915]. These cards feature Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Commander E R G R Evans, Captain L E G Oates, Dr Edward Adrian Wilson, Staff-Paymaster Francis Drake, Lieutenant H R Bowers, the "Terra Nova' arriving off Cape Evans Feb 1911, Captain Oates exercising a Siberian pony, Demetri the Russian dog-driver keeping a penguin from the dogs, Unpacking sledge and setting up camp, a football match at winter quarters, Midwinter day at Cape Evans, preparing one of the motor sledges, a sledge team on King Edward VII Plateau, a sledge party crossing a crevasse, Commander Evans' sledge flag, Dr Atkinson's supporting party, Commander Evans taking observations, Weddel seals asleep on the sea-ice, an Adelie penguin and his mate, an Adelie penguin with a young one, the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1910-1912 - Captain Roald Amundsen, Lindstrom the cook, Amundsen at the South Pole, Oscar Wisting at the South Pole. Liebig cards "L'Antarctique". (Antwerp, 1936). [Set of six cards]. These show: L'Ile de Cockburn (Cockburn Island), Icebergs dans la mer de Weddell (Icebergs on the Weddell Sea), Les Volcans Erebus et Terror. Elephants de mer (The vocanoes Erebus and Terror. Sea elephants), Le Glacier du Diable (Devil's Glacier), Le Cap Renard a la Courbe des Flandres (Cape Renard and the Flanders Bight[?]), Morcellement de la glace au Cap Crozier (ice breaking up at Cape Crozier). Also includes a 1998 postcard reproduction of an original 1913 postcard promoting "With Captn Scott in the Antarctic"/ Mr Herbert Ponting. Shows the Glad-Eye Penguin. Quantity: 31 cigarette (25) and picture (6) cards. Physical Description: Chromolithographs and photolithographs on cards, sizes varying from 37 x 69 mm, to 72 x 112 mm.

Date: 1956 - 1958

From: Lake, Robyn, 1943- (compiler) :[Two scrapbooks relating to the Antarctic venture 1956-1958].

Reference: Eph-C-ANTARCTICA-1956-01-22-1

Description: Shows a photograph of the 'Theron' "returning to her mooring site against the Weddell Sea ice after a storm had torn away the moorings and swamped the area". Extended Title - From Robyn Lake's "[Scrapbook relating to the Antarctic venture 1956-1958]", page [22], top Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Newsclipping 120 x 188 mm, stuck to scrapbook page, 375 x 247 mm

Date: 1914-1916

By: Worsley, Frank Arthur, 1872-1943

Reference: Micro-MS-0633

Description: Journal kept during Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antartic Expedition in the `Endurance' to the Weddell Sea, 1914-1916. The journal runs, with gaps, from 1 January 1915 to 18 May 1916. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) negative (ca 200 frames). Physical Description: Holograph (microfilm)

Date: 1936

From: [Cigarette cards relating to Antarctica and Antarctic exploration. 1913 and 1936].

By: Compagnie Liebig

Reference: Eph-A-ANTARCTICA-Cards-Liebig

Description: Cards show: L'Ile de Cockburn (Cockburn Island), Icebergs dans la mer de Weddell (Icebergs on the Weddell Sea), Les Volcans Erebus et Terror. Elephants de mer (The vocanoes Erebus and Terror. Sea elephants), Le Glacier du Diable (Devil's Glacier), Le Cap Renard a la Courbe des Flandres (Cape Renard and the Flanders Bight[?]), Morcellement de la glace au Cap Crozier (ice breaking up at Cape Crozier). Quantity: 6 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithographs on cards, 72 x 112 mm.

Date: 9 Dec 1914-13 May 1916

By: McNeish, Harry, 1874-1930

Reference: MS-1389

Description: Diary accounts by McNeish of the 1914-1916 Trans-Antarctic expedition under the command of Ernest Shackleton. The diary records the departure of the `Endurance', the ship's imprisonment in pack ice in the Weddell Sea, its destruction, the ice and sea journey by the crew to Elephant Island, and the voyage by Shackleton, McNeish and three others to South Georgia in the whale boat `James Caird'. Last pages contain a holograph letter to McNeish from Shackleton, 16 May 1916, written on South Georgia. Note that a leaf or leaves are missing (and were when the item arrived at the Library). The missing portion begins part way through the 7 April 1916 entry through to the first part of the 16 April 1916 entry. Source of title - Supplied title Other - Name McNeish is as on spine. This was the name he was known by at the time of his death. However, the main entry is McNish which was his original name, and the name he was known by during his Antarctic expeditions. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph (10 cm; ¼ maroon morocco, brown cloth folder)

Date: [between 1914-1915]

From: Pontefract, J :Chiefly photographs of Antarctica

Reference: 1/2-098616-F

Description: The Endurance travelling through the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Shows the bow of the ship and some of the rigging, and flat ice on the sea. Photograph taken between 1914 and 1915, possibly by James Francis Hurley. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1957

From: O'Dea, Albert James 1916-1986 :[Scrapbook of posters and pamphlets. 1940-1960s].

Reference: Eph-F-ODEA-1940/60-48-2-1

Description: Shows a watercolour, from a photograph taken by Sir Edmund Hillary, of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition landing in the Antarctic at the Weddell Sea. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on card.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on card 165 x 217 mm.

Date: 1936

From: [Cigarette cards relating to Antarctica and Antarctic exploration. 1913 and 1936].

Reference: Eph-A-ANTARCTICA-Cards-Liebig-01

Description: Card shows a view of Cockburn Island as seen from Seymour Island, in the Weddell Sea, south of Tierra del Fuego. The foreground shows penguins and a gull on Seymour Island. The verso, written in French, states that the islands are of volcanic origin and have sparse vegetation. They are inhabited only by seals. In 1892 Captain Larsen collected many fossils from the island which was used by whalers at the time this card was published. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 72 x 112 mm.

Date: 1936

From: [Cigarette cards relating to Antarctica and Antarctic exploration. 1913 and 1936].

Reference: Eph-A-ANTARCTICA-Cards-Liebig-02

Description: Card shows a large craggy iceberg and explains that 9/10 is under water; refers to the 'Titanic' tragedy. There is a group of seals in the left foreground. The text on the verso explains that the temperature can be as low as -77 degrees Fahrenheit, or -61 degrees centigrade. Exhibited in ‘Humble: the life of 100 small objects’, exhibition curated by Barbara Lyon, in the Turnbull Gallery, National Library of New Zealand, 27 August - 17 November 2017. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card, 72 x 112 mm.