12th of December
Historical
Antarctic Pictures and Events
Robert Falcon Scott, British Antarctic Expedition (South Pole Expedition) on the ship Terra Nova, 1910 - 1913.
1910 - "Icing the ship in the pack".
Pack ice is frozen sea water and so is salty, but trapped in the pack or floating in open water leads are small ice-bergs and icy rubble that has broken off from them, these are fresh water and can be collected to be melted by waste heat from the ships engine.
