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Voyage of the Scotia 1902-04

People of the Expedition

Three people at Omond House, Scotia Bay

image from Springburn Virtual Museum

Omond House was the rather grand name given in honour of the Scottish meteorologist Robert T Omond to the building erected in 1903 on Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands to accommodate shore-based members of the 1902-1904 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, organised and led by William S Bruce.

The picture shows three members of the expedition posing in front of Omond House after completion of the wooden extension seen under construction in image 037-043.

The central figure could be the leader himself, and the other two people might be Argentinian meteorologists brought from Buenos Aires when the Scotia returned from refit and resupplying there.

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