| Description | Descriptions of aurorae [aurora australis] observed at Winter Quarters, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, with occasional sketches of the phenomena. The diary-style text entries are prefaced by [p.1] directions for observers on what to record: time of appearence and time of bright streamers, position of arch and altitude by landmarks, extremities by landmarks, rate of motion and definition, length to arch of streamers, position of corona, temperature cloud and wind, intensity by comparison with stars, and sketches. A key list of eleven observers is given by initials [p.2], commencing with Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904 [the Discovery Expedition], and including Charles William Rawson Royds, Edward Adrian Wilson, Ernest Henry Shackleton and others of the expedition, with Louis Bernacchi.
The volume includes a single aurora chart, 1902 [pp.104/105] 'Printed at the Office of the "South Polar Times" ', and two blank printed forms [pp.106/107] headed 'Weather report for Greenwich Mean noon for one day'.
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