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In February 1899, Borchgrevink's party of Southern Cross Expedition landed at Cape Adare - the northeastern most peninsula in Victoria Land, East Antarctica,where they built a prefabricated hut (the first human structure ever built on the Antarctic continent). They wintered at Cape Adare and were picked up in January of 1900 by Southern Cross ship.
At the image you could see a drawing above Kolbein Ellefsen's bed in Borchgrevink's Cape Adare Hut. Ellefsen was one of the members of the Southern Cross Expedition. He was a good sailor and also the Cook on the expedition and a talented artist. The image was taken in January of 2001.
The image was taken by Mila Zinkova

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current	19:49, 27 October 2007	3,000×2,023 (3.46 MB)	Mbz1 (Talk \| contribs)	(A drawing above Kolbein Ellefsen's bed in Borchgrevink's Cape Adare Hut. Ellefsen was one of the members of the Southern Cross Expedition. The members of the expedition spent almost a year at Cape Adare from February [[189)