A painting of a scene
of the polar expeditionary team setting up camp on the Great Ice Barrier
early in the expedition. Notice the ponies used to haul the sledges.
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
British Imperial Antarctic Expedition "Nimrod - Expedition",
1907 -1909
In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume
I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 78.
Picture courtesy NOAA