Pages 59B and 60A from an Antarctic diary recently found and restored, show Levick’s notations: Priestley, Dickason and Browning set a fish trap and Campbell with theodolite. www.nzaht.org

Levick’s notebook, after conservation treatment by the Antarctic Heritage Trust (NZ). 

Priestley, Dickason and Browning set a fish trap. P48/14/112, the technical details of this photography taken by Levick were recently found in his notebook, which survived a century of being buried in ice in Antarctica. 

Lieutenant Victor Campbell undertakes survey work. He stands at a theodolite mounted on a tripod. An equipment box lays on the ice at his feet. The photo taken by George Murray Levick, whose notebook in which the technical details of the image were recorded, was found recently buried under snow and ice in Antarctica.

A self-portrait of Surgeon George Murray Levick’s cubicle. He is smoking a pipe and reading on his bunk in the hut at Cape Adare. The photo taken by George Murray Levick and recorded in his notebook on pages 60B and 61A. The notebook was recently found and restored after being buried under snow and ice for a century.

Ross Island, Antarctica. Alexander Stevens, chief scientist and geologist looks south, with Hut Point Peninsula in the background. The cellulose nitrate processed sheet film negative, was found in Captain Scott’s 1911 expedition base, Cape Evans, Antarctica, by Antarctic Heritage Trust (NZ) and restored. Photo taken by Ernest Shackleton’s Ross Sea Party 1914-1917 party.

This photo, taken by Ernest Shackleton’s Ross Sea Party 1914-1917, depicts Tent Island in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. There is some mould staining around edge of a cellulose nitrate processed sheet film negative (silver gelatine). It is one of a group of negatives adhered together and found recently in Captain Scott’s 1911 expedition base, Cape Evans, Antarctica, by Antarctic Heritage Trust (NZ) conservators. 

This clump of cellulose nitrate processed sheet film negatives were found like this in Antarctica, in Scott’s 1911 expedition hut. The negatives were restored by the Antarctic Heritage Trust (NZ) and some images could be made from them.

Mt Erebus, Antarctica, from the west. This image is made from a restored negative found recently in Scott’s 1911 expedition base.