Plateau Travel

12 x 20 inches,  oil on board,  1988

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This is a painting shows the Hairybreeks sledge dog team travelling over the ice cap on one of our journeys  from our British Antarctic Survey base of Halley Bay during the austral summer of 1967-68.  Our lead dog is a Greenland born husky named Whisky.  On this painting he is followed by Chalky and Shem, then the  brothers Wensen (dark ears) and Esk, then Changi (darker dog) and his brother Luqa and at the rear, old stagers, Stroma and Skye.  (Skye is on the right of the pair).  The drivers are Pete Noble in red on the left of the sledge, and myself in green.  It is called Plateau Travel because much of the work we did this season was to recconnoitre a route across the plateau of the Antarctic ice cap to prove a route to the distant Shackleton Range, a group of mountains about 300 miles south of our base at  Halley Bay on the east coast of the Weddell Sea.