EDWARD ADRIAN WILSON (1872-1912)
Mount Erebus (3, 794 m - 12, 448ft)
Antarctica
In Slopes of Mount Erebus, Watercolour on paper laid down on card Painting, 13.3 x 21.6 cm, 1911, Royal Geographical Society Museum, London
The mountain
Mount Erebus (3, 794 m - 12, 448ft), not to be confused with Mount
Elbrus is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica (after Mount Sidley)
and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. It is the sixth highest
ultra mountain on an island, located on Ross Island, which is also home
to three inactive volcanoes: Mount Terror, Mount Bird, and Mount Terra
Nova.
The volcano has been active since c. 1.3 million years ago and is the
site of the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory run by the New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology.
Mount Erebus was discovered on January 27, 1841 (and observed to be in
eruption) by polar explorer Sir James Clark Ross who named it and its
companion, Mount Terror, after his ships, Erebus and Terror (which were
later used by Sir John Franklin on his disastrous Arctic expedition).
The artist
Edward Adrian Wilson, nicknamed "Uncle Bill" was an English physician,
polar explorer, natural historian, painter and ornithologist. Wilson
took part in two British expeditions to Antarctica, the Discovery
Expedition (1901-1904) and the tragic Terra Nova Expedition
(1907-1912), both under the leadership of Scott.
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