6th of April
Historical Antarctic Pictures and Events
1910 - "A Gale in the Fifties" - by Herbert Ponting on the Terra Nova. The men on deck are working one of the pumps, Ponting must be above the deck in the rigging to get this picture.
1922 - The men of the Quest return to South Georgia and build a memorial cairn for Shackleton on a headland at the entrance to Grytviken harbour following his death there 3 months earlier.