Since I have been interested in paintings from the Ross Antarctic Expedition lately, how about this painting done by James Ross himself? It’s much more of a suggestive rather than detailed piece, but I think it has a very somber mood to it that would have been appropriate for the occasion of reaching “Furthest South.”
Hey The Terror fandom, I think you may find this interesting. In 2019, there will be a movie about Roald Amundsen, the first polar explorer to sail through the Northwest Passage.
Really want to see this. It looks like it praises Amundsen’s accomplishments while not glossing over his childishness and arrogance. People always fight over him because of the crappy Roland Huntford book, but he was just a person of contrasts who accomplished a lot using native survival tactics. He completed the northwest and northeast passages, saw both poles, and was a pioneer in polar flight but in the end his arrogance and complacency did him in. He disappeared in the arctic on a mission to more or less prove a point to his rival Umberto Nobile in a sub-standard plane.
Took a while to find it, but here it is. Follow this link and scroll down until you see ’Captain Richard Campbell, RN: The Voyage of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Southern and Antarctic Regions. Captain James Clark Ross, R.N. 1839–1843. The Journal of Sergeant William K. Cunningham, R.M. of HMS Terror April 2009
There you’ll find links to the three part PDF of the journal of William Cunningham, an unofficial account (being a personal journal) of James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition. Along with some great ‘extras’ thrown in by the editor in part 3. Even if you’re more interested in the Arctic instead of the Antarctic, this gives a great picture of what life was like on a discovery ship of the mid 19th century. A ship that happens to be the HMS Terror as well. Under Francis Crozier.
