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17th. December 1955 Mawson
The long daylight at first seemed like a dispensation and a long benevolence, but it has become unsettling. We human beings can't match the offer that perpetual daylight offers. The light although it persists, is far from unvarying. The earliest new light comes at two a.m. making long shallow pools of shadow and immense streaked slopes of yellow light - a farmland pattern on this ever-fallow ice. By midday the light is hard-white, the ice cliffs a searing white that flashes suddenly from behind the warm neutral rock when you reach the top of the small camp hills. By late evening the ice is soft-tinted, a blue transparentness in the hollows. By midnight the wind has risen and the colours are all cold again.
Jack Ward, Mawson diary (1955)
