The R.R.S. Discovery LI returned to London last month after covering 100,000 miles on her fifth commission to Antarctic waters. The purpose of the trip was a study of the great whales of the Southern Ocean, and in the course of it a circum -polar cruise occupied six months. At one stage a blizzard was encountered which lasted for 12 hours, during which period magnetic compasses were useless. The pictures appearing on this page are official Colonial Office photographs taken during the voyage.
Everything was aí times frozen solid.
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