| Description | Daily meteorological observations made at two hourly intervals on board the steam sealing vessel 'Southern Cross'. The first set of data [pp.4-53] records sailing from Hobart, Tasmania, to Cape Adare, eastern Antarctica, December 1898-February 1899. The second set of information [pp.55-96] is from the return voyage, from Possession Island, off Antarctica, to Stweart Island, New Zealand, February-March 1900. Columns record the date and time of observation, latitude and longitude, aneroid and/or mercury barometer, maximum and minimum temperatures, thetmometer no. 90151, dry and wet thermometers, dew point [not completed], sea temperature, force and direction of wind, amount and form of cloud, specific gravity of sea, and general weather remarks.
Made during the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900 [the Southern Cross Expedition] led by Captain Carsten Borchgrevink.
Headed [p.1]: 'Meteorological observations made on board S.Y. "Southern Cross" from Hobart to Cape Adare', and initialled 'L.B.' [Louis Bernacchi]. There are two loose inserts, one from William Napier Shaw, the Royal Society, n.d. [1904] 'The Meteorological Documents of the Borchgrevink Expedition particularly the curves of the self recording instuments...will send'. With a list of aneroidograms and thermograms received by Aubrey C Goad, Meterological Office, 7 November 1904. |