Carsten Borchgrevink. The British Antarctic (Southern Cross) Expedition 1898-1900
Above: Nine men (Ole Must in traditional Lap dress) and two dogs on deck, Southern Cross, British Antarctic (Southern Cross) Expedition, 1898
"The British Antarctic (Southern Cross) Expedition 1898-1900 was the first to use dogs in Antarctica. They became an important part of Antarctic work for much of the 20th century.
"The expedition also brought two young Sami men, from the far north of Norway, whose job was to care for and train the dogs. Their experience in cold climates and their skill in handling these half-wild animals were vital to the expedition's survival.
Around 95 Samoyeds and huskies were aboard the Southern Cross when it left England. They had been bought in Siberia and Greenland for nearly £2,000.
The dogs were kenneled during the journey south, creating an awful stench on deck. Their feet bled as they were tossed by rough seas onto the hard boards, and their coats had to be clipped as the ship passed through the tropics.
On arrival at Cape Adare, the dogs were allowed to run free, but they fought viciously and caused mass destruction in the unsuspecting penguin colony.
The dogs were eventually kenneled in packing cases outside the huts"
"Seventy five dogs were taken ashore, the first time dogs had been used in Antarctica".
1, 2. Per Savio and Ole Must, Doghandlers, Finnish Lapps in Hobart Tasmania prior to going to Antarctica
3. William Colbeck, magnetical observer
4. Dogs on the deck of the Southern Cross at anchor at Hobart
5. Taking magnetic observations on the ice
6. William Colbeck
Pictures courtesy - Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.
Carsten E. Borchgrevink - Southern Cross. British Antarctic Expedition 1898 – 1900. Электронний ресурс: https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_whos_who_southern_cross.php?fbclid=IwAR2DPK9XoQY79S-ugKwfQ0_8KTvQ9B7kjMP031PsInPT1aiBf2wDGruLz_M
After the expedition, the surviving dogs were quarantined at Stewart Island, the southernmost island in New Zealand, under the care of the Traill family. The Traills sold pups from the white samoyeds, creating a line of pure-bred Southern Hemisphere samoyeds which exists to this day.
In 1907, Ernest Shackleton took descendants of these dogs to Antarctica on the Nimrod expedition.
"To the South Polar Regions : expedition of 1898-1900" by Louis Bernacchi, one of the members of the Carsten Borchgrevink expedition with the Southern Cross. Borchgrevink has taken 90 dogs with him to the south. Text in the book:
"Soon after leaving St. Vincent some of the members became seriously ill, Mr. Hanson, the zoologist, most dangerously so. His illness lasted over three weeks, at the end of which he was in a most pitiable state of weakness. It was undoubtedly some form of fever, possibly contracted at St. Vincent, which had attacked him. The sickness was aggravated by the intense heat and the appalling effluvium arising from some ninety Siberian sledge dogs we had on deck. These dogs were procured from the Samoyedes, in the north of Siberia, and were the first dogs ever introduced in Antarctic exploration. They were in charge of two Finns, two interesting fellows of singular good nature, who came from Vordsö, in the north of Norway, and who were well versed in the management of dogs and in sledge travelling. It would be advisable on all future Antarctic expeditions, where dogs are employed, to send them on ahead by a fast steamer, as the noise and dirt they make on board a small ship taking three months to reach Australia is well nigh unbearable."
The book: https://archive.org/details/tosouthpolarreg00berngoog/page/n10/mode/2up?view=theater
Hannie Vink about the pictures below:
Another dog called Erebus! In the biography of Sir George Newnes Bart "The life of Sir George Newnes Bart" written by Hulda Friederichs I discovered that one of the dogs from the Carsten Borchgrevink expedition 1898-1900 also was called Erebus. Sir George Newnes Bart financed this expedition. There were taken about one hundred dogs at this expedition, Greenland dogs and Siberian dogs. The surviving dogs were left on an island near Stewart Island. The dog Erebus did get a new home with the Family Newnes in Lynton.Alla reaktioner:20Du, Marianne Suurmeijer, Marie-Louise Lakjer och 17 andra