The Castle Berg in Summer

'As soon as possible after the sun returned I made some photographs of the Castle Berg, which had so entranced me since its arrival off our cape the previous autumn. The weathering process, to which it had been subjected by the winter storms, had but added to its wonder. During the long months of darkness, I had often stood beneath its crystal bastions and marvelled at the skill with which the hand of Nature had built and chiselled the frozen walls into the semblance of a Norman tower...Now, as the sun flooded it with light, the berg became of such gleaming beauty that even the most impressionable members of our community felt the influence of its spell. There was but one opinion concerning it amongst us - that it was the most wonderful iceberg ever reported in the polar regions; and for my part, I never wearied of searching for some fresh picture of its ever-changing aspects'.
(H.G. Ponting, op.cit., pp.171-2)