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BRITISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901-1904
CAPE ROYDS -- A piece of granite from Cape Royds, Antarctica, front cut and polished, mounted on an oak plinth bearing a hall-marked silver plaque reading: Granite from Cape Royds. Lat. 77.0 31'E. Long. 166.0 30'E. Wood from Broken Rudder of Discovery. (Overall size 100 x 95 x 85mm).
Cape Royds, as described in the geological report following the expedition, is a rectangular promontory on the west side of Mount Erebus of about 3 square miles named after Lieutenant Charles Rawson Royds, the senior naval officer on the Discovery. Among Royds's contributions to the geological research on the trip was proving the uniform horizontality of the upper surface of Piedmonts-afloat while on a 155-mile sledge-journey and his observations of ridges at the north end of White Island.
CAPE ROYDS -- A piece of granite from Cape Royds, Antarctica, front cut and polished, mounted on an oak plinth bearing a hall-marked silver plaque reading: Granite from Cape Royds. Lat. 77.0 31'E. Long. 166.0 30'E. Wood from Broken Rudder of Discovery. (Overall size 100 x 95 x 85mm).
Cape Royds, as described in the geological report following the expedition, is a rectangular promontory on the west side of Mount Erebus of about 3 square miles named after Lieutenant Charles Rawson Royds, the senior naval officer on the Discovery. Among Royds's contributions to the geological research on the trip was proving the uniform horizontality of the upper surface of Piedmonts-afloat while on a 155-mile sledge-journey and his observations of ridges at the north end of White Island.
Provenance
Lieut. Charles R. Royds RN, and by descent to...