The Ship of Ice is a 1946 Australian verse about Antarctica by Rosemary Dobson.

According to one account "The story is of an English schooner, the Jenny, which sailed from Lima, Peru, in 1823 and was discovered 37 years later, frozen in an Antarctic ice pack. The skipper of a whaler, who discovered the long-missing ship, went on board and found the bodies of the captain, his wife, and members of the crew perfectly preserved."

It won the Sydney Morning Herald's 1946 Poetry Competition.

The poem was later published in a collection of Dobson's work in 1948, titled The Ship of Ice : And Other Poems.

Radio version The poem was produced on ABC radio in 1947. It was produced again in 1949.

See also 1946 in Australian literature

References

External links Part One, Part Two, Part Three at Sydney Morning Herald Ship of Ice at Ausstage