'It was six, eight, nine, eleven thousand feet deep, two miles of snow packed into ice, the storehouse of the world's fresh water; the cap of reflection that tossed the sun's light back in its face, fed winter winds across the globe, and sent its creeping fingers of cold into the depths of all the world's seas; the face of the earth that shone'.

South Light. A journey to the last continent. Michael Parfit

detail of drawing made with materials found on site	Snow Hill Island fossiliferous desert-like towering   Crabeater seal encrusted with grit hardened like leather no decay
Blue Berg collage	Devil Island Adelies marching purposefully around or 'round-shouldered' on a pile of rocks.
Whalers' Bay Melt Water	Frost shatter	Deception Island: shrouded in low cloud. wet and running in volcanic ash and melt water. mineral-stained slopes, frost shattered rocks, whale bones, water boats.

How wonderful are islands! Islands in space, like this one I have come to, ringed about by miles of water, linked by no bridges, no cables, no telephones. An island from the world and the world's life...past and future are cut off; only the present remains.

Gift from the Sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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