Exploration Collection (#28)

Departing by balloon

Patent for John Cabot
Letters patent for a voyage to discover new lands granted to John Cabot by King Henry VII, 1496-1497 Date: 1496-1497

Columbus taking possession of the new country. Christopher Columbus kneeling, holding flag and sword with two other men holding flags

Paloeornis melanura or Black tailed paraquet perched on a branch. From: Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia Date: 1849

Depot Glen, rocky glen through which a creek passes From: Narrative of an expedition into central Australia Date: 1849

Confluence of the Murray and the Darling rivers
The confluence of the Murray and the Darling rivers. From: Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia Date: 1849

Grey-crowned babbler and White-browed babbler

Exhibition on board RSS Discovery
Exhibition about an Antarctic expedition on board the training ship RSS Discovery. circa 1951

Polar tableau, RSS Discovery Exhibition
A polar tableau at an RSS Discovery Exhibition, showing a tent, a husky dog, skis, a flag and snow, as used on the the film set at Ealing Studios. 1948

RSS Discovery exhibition with celebrities and penguin
Scene on board RSS Discovery during an exhibition, showing the British actor John Mills, the naturalist Peter Scott (son of Captain Scott), a zoo keeper, and five Sea Scouts in polar costume

RSS Discovery in the Antarctic. Launched in 1901 and designed for Antarctic research, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain

Exercising dogs in New Zealand prior to Scott Polar Expediti
Husky dogs being exercised on the New Zealand shore in preparation for the Captain Scott expedition to Antarctica in which Scott

Breaking in ponies for the Scott Polar Expedition
Breaking in one of the twenty Siberian ponies to be taken on board the Terra Nova as part of the Captain Scott Polar expedition of 1911 - 12

Workshops and Store Areas - Anglo-Iranian Oil Company works at Masjid-I-Sulaiman - one of the first active oil fields in the Middle East Date: circa 1930s

Shipping Shell Motor Spirit on board the Terra Nova at Sydney for the motor sledges used by Captain Scott during his 1911-12 Antarctic expedition

Final preparations for the Scott expedition
Taking twenty Siberian ponies on board the Terra Nova before the ship carrying Captain Scott and his team departed from New Zealand

Blizzard on Barrier
Ponies at the camp during a blizzard on the Barrier. Date: 1907 - 1909

Music in the Hut
Members of Shackletons Antarctic expedition enjoy music in their hut. Date: circa 1907

Picking up Party
The Nimrod picking up the Northern Party at the Drygalski Barrier. Date: 1907 - 1909

Cook and Peary
- and PEARY : the card features both explorers, but discreetly doesn t indicate which of the two is the true discoverer of the North Pole. Date: 1908 - 1909

The Returning Sun
THE RETURNING SUN Date: 1908-1909

Adelie Penguins
Adelie penguins and their young. Date: 1907 - 1909

Emperor Penguins
A conclave of Emperor penguins. Date: 1907 - 1909

Return of the Penguins
The penguins return in the spring. Date: 1907 - 1909

Hauling Stores
Ponies hauling stores to Shackletons hut. Date: circa 1907

PARSELENE
Parselene and lunar rainbow Date: 1907 - 1909

Shackleton Motor Car
Day with the motor car on the sea ice : ordinary wheels with rubber tyres were found to be the most satisfactory. Date: circa 1907

South Magnetic Pole
Professor David : I hereby take possession of this area now containing the Magnetic Pole for the British Empire. Dr Mackay is on his right, Douglas Mawson on his left. Date: 1909

Shackleton on Ice
Shackletons men on the Great Ice Barrier, during their Antarctic expedition. circa 1907

Southern Africa - Gold Prospecting
Working underground in a South African goldmine - using a machine drill Date: 1907

Commander Peary and Captain Bartlett
Robert Edwin Peary (1856 1920), explorer and adventurer, who claimed on April 6th 1909 to have been the first man to reach the North Pole, although this claim is widely doubted today

French Underground slate quarrying at Laval Date: circa 1910s

Has Captain Scott reached the Pole?
Page from The Sphere magazine speculating on whether Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his polar exploration team had reached the South Pole in December 1911, as scheduled

Replica of Columbus Santa Maria
Portugal, Madeira, Ajuda: Replica of Columbus Santa Maria. Date: 2010

Portugal, Lisbon, Belem: Monument to the Discoveries (PadrÒ»ádos Descobrimentos) (detail). From left, we see depicted: Gomes Eanes de Zurara (chronicler), Pero da Covilha (traveller)

Herbert Kitchener and others in Western Palestine
Herbert Kitchener (later Lord Kitchener, 1850-1916) and others inside their tent whilst on a mapping survey of Western Palestine (Israel, West Bank and Gaza today) for the Palestine Exploration Fund

Frostbitten hand of Edward Atkinson, Antarctic expedition 19
The hand of Surgeon Edward Atkinson, swollen with blisters due to frostbite. Edward Leicester Atkinson (18811929) was a Royal naval surgeon

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - pulling sledge over ice
A view showing how sledges were rushed from one ice floe to another, with a sled pulling team waiting for two floes to meet and quickly dashing across

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - seals and ice
Seals basking on newly formed pancake ice off Cape Evans, captured by photographer Herbert Ponting during the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition to the South Pole, 1910 - 1912. Date: 1913

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - glacial cave
Awe-inspiring curved cavern within an iceberg, found by the Scott polar expedition shortly after the arrival of the Terra Nova at Antarctica

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - Earth Shadow
An earth shadow from Mount Erebus on Antarctica, cast on the clouds and seen during the ill-fated Scott polar expedition of 1910 - 1912

Norman Bedingfield
Commander Norman B.Bedingfield. of the Royal Navy, who was appointed by the Foregn Office to acompany his friend Dr David Livingstone on the Zambezi Expedition which set out in March 1858 Date: 1858

Balboa / Exploration
Vasco Nunez de Balboa is attacked by natives on his way to the Cordilleras Date: 16th century

BALBOA (1475 - 1517)
VASCO NUNEZ DE BALBOA Spanish explorer of South America. Discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513. Date: 1475 - 1517

Drake / Pacific / 1577
Francis Drake sees the Pacific Ocean for the first time Date: 1577

Drake / Pacific
Francis Drakes ship Golden Hind in the Pacific Date: late 16th century

Shackleton Motorsledge
The motorised sledge which he plans to use instead of the huskies and ponies used by earlier expeditions... Date: 1907

High-speed passenger launch PL3 for Shell of Venezuela

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