Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Forgotten Explorers of Antarctica
- Reason
- Almost everybody knows something about exploration of Antarctica. Most people would name Robert Falcon Scott, who tried and failed to be the first at South Pole, Roald Amundsen, who did it and Ernest Shackleton and his amazing story of survival. I've nominated the image to bring attention to all of the brave men I've mentioned above and to countless forgotten others. The image could be two times historic. First because the drawing was made in 1899 and second because, if Wikipedia is correct about this, Borchgrevink's Cape Adare hut still existed as of 2003, but was being destroyed by the effects of penguin guano.
- Proposed caption
- 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 1990 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. While looking at the image, please, try to imagine a young man (Kolbein Ellefsen was in his yearly twenties) during unforgiving Polar night, not knowing what's going to happened next (one of the expedition members did not make it), who used a Kerosene lamp or a candle with its ghostly light to draw portrait of a beautiful woman above his bed. The image was taken in January of 2001. - Articles this image appears in
- Carstens Borchgrevink
- Creator
- Mbz1
- Support as nominator Mbz1 15:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- Comment The image is a scan of my old print. The resolution is high enough to downsample it, if needed. Thank you.--Mbz1 15:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose quality isn't there - flash glare, out of focus for a stationary object, muddled composition. Not appealing. de Bivort 15:45, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- Support I like it, and think that the artefacts actually bring out the feel of being there. Adam Cuerden talk 17:37, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose. Low quality, low detail, unreadable inscription, etc. — BRIAN 0918 • 2007-11-13 21:26Z
- Oppose, doesn't give me any kind of "feel of being there", very poor technical quality. --Aqwis 22:08, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- Comment I'd like to thank you all for taking your time to vote and to comment on the image.--Mbz1 13:45, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
- I withdraw the nomination. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 04:02, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Not promoted MER-C 02:39, 19 November 2007 (UTC)