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Antarctic oasis : under the spell of South Georgia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20140
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1998
- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
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- Author
- Carr, Pauline
- Carr, Tim
- Responsibility
- Tim and Pauline Carr
- Publisher
- London ; W.W. Norton & Company
- Published Date
- 1998
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations ; maps
- Subjects
- Antarctic Regions
- Sailing
- Boating
- Travel
- Abstract
- An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world. A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others. In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall
- Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost
- Chapter III - Nine to Five
- Chapter IV - Green Antarctic
- Chapter V - Kindred Souls
- Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow
- Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth
- Chapter VIII - Albatross
- Chapter IX - Elephantastic
- Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension
- Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds
- Chapter XII - The Wild Side
- Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice
- Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels
- Index
- Notes
- Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials
- Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip
- Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0393046052
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G370-480 C37 A58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to publication on Abe Books
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- Artist
- D. H. Pinder
- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- PiD.05.01
- Description
- An unframed watercolour showing a small boat with two sails on water at sunset. In the background are palm trees and stone columns. A person and a red net are in the boat.
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- Artist
- D. H. Pinder
- Title
- Arab Dhow
- Date
- c. 1930
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 10.8 x 19.0 cm
- Description
- An unframed watercolour showing a small boat with two sails on water at sunset. In the background are palm trees and stone columns. A person and a red net are in the boat.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- PiD.05.01
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Exploring South Georgia & the Falklands : M/S Endeavour November 12th - 29th, 2004
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20171
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Napoli, Jim
- Publisher
- Lindblad Expeditions
- Call Number
- G370-480 N27 E97
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- Author
- Napoli, Jim
- Responsibility
- Jim Napoli
- Publisher
- Lindblad Expeditions
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 1 videocassette (59 min., 52 sec.) : colour
- Abstract
- Film pertains to a trip aboard the M/S Endeavour from November 12th to November 29th, 2004 of South Georgia and the Falklands which included a trekking party who crossed South Georgia Island following Shakleton's route, led by guides David Hahn, Deirdre Galbraith, James Norton
- Notes
- Margaret Gmoser was in the trekking party
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G370-480 N27 E97
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Daily Expedition Reports from this expedition
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Homeward Bound
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactleb.04.17
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LeB.04.17
- Description
- There is a very large ship with yellow sails and orange stripes in the cc. From the cl a piece of land with green grass jets out into the water. Across the front is a dark blue body of water with a small sail boat and two people in the br. The blue sky is filled with grey clouds.
- Title
- Homeward Bound
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- woodcut on paper
- Description
- There is a very large ship with yellow sails and orange stripes in the cc. From the cl a piece of land with green grass jets out into the water. Across the front is a dark blue body of water with a small sail boat and two people in the br. The blue sky is filled with grey clouds.
- Credit
- Gift of Peter and Judith Jekill, Calgary, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- LeB.04.17
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Morning light : triumph at sea and tragedy on everest : a story of George Griffiths written by his wife, Margaret, based on tape recordings, letters, diaries, conversations and reports
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14824
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Griffiths, Margaret
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G512 G75 2008
- Author
- Griffiths, Margaret
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- xxii, 288 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports.
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Mountaineers, Canadian
- Sailing
- ISBN
- 9781897522080
- Call Number
- G512 G75 2008
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Artist
- Marvin Scanie
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- acrylic on masonite
- Catalogue Number
- SaM.12.01
- Description
- Overall blue sweeping painting, centre is a sailboat keeling port side, there is a figure in a red hat and scarf at the stern.
- Artist
- Marvin Scanie
- Title
- Sailboat
- Date
- 1971
- Medium
- acrylic on masonite
- Dimensions
- 40.0 x 61.0 cm
- Description
- Overall blue sweeping painting, centre is a sailboat keeling port side, there is a figure in a red hat and scarf at the stern.
- Subject
- seascape
- boat
- activity, sailing
- figure, male
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- SaM.12.01
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- Date
- 1916 – 1927
- Medium
- ink on paper, glossy
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.085
- Description
- Small ink drawing of sailboat surrounded by a border of lighthouses, a ship’s wheel, 4 figures and the words “EX LIBRIS” down the right side border, and “RUSSELL ROBB” on bottom edge of border.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1916 – 1927
- Medium
- ink on paper, glossy
- Dimensions
- 15.8 x 12 cm
- Description
- Small ink drawing of sailboat surrounded by a border of lighthouses, a ship’s wheel, 4 figures and the words “EX LIBRIS” down the right side border, and “RUSSELL ROBB” on bottom edge of border.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.085
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- Date
- 1916 – 1927
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.087
- Description
- Drawing of sailboat surrounded by border of lighthouse, compass, boat wheel, 4 figures, the words “EX LIBRIS” down right side and “RUSSELL ROBB” along bottom border edge. Written in pencil on front around image: “10706 Whyte Then (?) 3 block”“- 3 1/2 -”Written in pencil on back:“Peter Whyte, Concor…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1916 – 1927
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 23 cm
- Description
- Drawing of sailboat surrounded by border of lighthouse, compass, boat wheel, 4 figures, the words “EX LIBRIS” down right side and “RUSSELL ROBB” along bottom border edge. Written in pencil on front around image: “10706 Whyte Then (?) 3 block”“- 3 1/2 -”Written in pencil on back:“Peter Whyte, Concord, Mass.”
- Subject
- sailboat
- sailing
- lighthouse
- Robb
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.087
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- Date
- 1925 – 1966
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.737
- Description
- A man stands on top of the mainsail platform using his spyglass to look out. The sailboat appears to be moving about rocky water, and on one of the ropes there is a distant little flag that appears to be American. On the port side of the boat “MADOC” is written.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1925 – 1966
- Medium
- ink; watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 11.3 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- A man stands on top of the mainsail platform using his spyglass to look out. The sailboat appears to be moving about rocky water, and on one of the ropes there is a distant little flag that appears to be American. On the port side of the boat “MADOC” is written.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.737
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The West Indies Trade
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- Artist
- George C. Wales
- Date
- 1918
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WaG.04.02
- Description
- Two-masted ship with distant ship on horizon; in print The W.I. Trade, GCW 1918 blc; signed George C. Wales brc on edge of paper.
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- Artist
- George C. Wales
- Title
- The West Indies Trade
- Date
- 1918
- Medium
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.0 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- Two-masted ship with distant ship on horizon; in print The W.I. Trade, GCW 1918 blc; signed George C. Wales brc on edge of paper.
- Subject
- activity, sailing
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WaG.04.02
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