Exploration Collection (page 7)

BARTH / AFRICA / LAKE CHAD
Herd of elephants, Lake Chad: Dr Heinrich Barth crossed the Sahara from Tripoli, through the Chad basin to Timbuktu, where he did work on the languages and ethnography. Date: September 1851

AFRICA / EXPLORATION / CONGO
Cutting through the jungle with a machete in the swamps of the Lobaye, the French and Germans establish frontiers in the Congo. Date: 1913

ROSS / ANDREWROSS ISLAND
John Rosss arctic expedition: Andrewross Island. Date: 1829 - 33

MADIS DESERTION / STANLEY
Emin Pasha relief expedition : the desertion of the Madis leads to a battle between them and those who remain loyal Date: 1888

LIVINGSTONE READS BIBLE
Livingstone as a missionary reads the Bible to African natives

Map of Africa illustrating travels of explorers
A map of Africa which illustrates the travels of the explorers Livingstone, Stanley and Cameron. Date: 19th Century

Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars
An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Mars. Martians enjoy less gravity, but must withstand a thinner atmosphere with extreme temperatures. Civilisation could be highly developed. Date: 1939

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Pluto. In perpetual twilight, and fiercely cold compared to Earth, fur-covered bats would be the best equipped life form, dwelling underground. Date: 1940

Imaginary life forms on the planet Jupiter -- living with gravity more than twice that of Earth, with atmospheric conditions to match, imposes severe restrictions on them. Date: 1940

Oil in Dorset
Night photograph of the 80 ft high B.P. Exploration Companys drilling rig near Kimmeridge in Dorset where a show of oil had been encountered at a depth of about 1800 feet in limestone in

Jacques Cartier (1491A?i? 1557). French explorer. Portrait
Jacques Cartier (1491 A?i? 1557). French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. Portrait. Color

Members of Franklin expedition at Fort Enterprise
Members of the first Franklin expedition (1819-1822), including John Franklin, John Hepburn and Dr John Richardson, at Fort Enterprise, North America

Africa (XIX). Equatorial Guinea. Exploration into Fernando Poo. Bubi people from Musola and Bocaboch󠶩 llages. Image appeared in La Ilustraci󮠅 spa񯬡 y Americana newspaper

Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci Anonymous
VESPUCCI, Amerigo (1454-1512). Italian explorer and cartography; generally considered that the continents of America named after him. Oil

Diogo Gomes and Antonio Nola discover Santiago
Portuguese Colonial History Series - Diogo Gomes and Antonio de Noli (Nola) discover the Island of Santiago (the largest island of the Cape Verde Islands) in 1460

Vasco da Gama erects a column in Mozambique
Portuguese Colonial History Series - Vasco da Gama erects a column in Mozambique during his sea voyage to India -1498. Date: 1498

The hairy family of Burma: A four generation pedigree of congenital hypertrichosis lanuginosa

A Kroomen, an African Sailor
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Warrior, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Native houses, Cebu, Visayas, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Mandinka people, West Africa
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Caracara plancus, southern caracara
Ff. 33. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Queen Pornare, Tahiti, Society Islands
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Plaque left on the moon by the first visitors
The metal plaque left on the surface of the moon in July 1969 by the first human visitors to the Earths sole satellite. It bears the signatures of astronauts Armstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin

Captain Scott and his tent
Artists impression of Captain Scott writing in his diary in his tent during his expedition to the South Pole in which he and his four companions perished

Ross / Copeland Island
Ross/Copeland Island

Belgica / Expedition Crew
The Belgica expedition which gathered many geological samples. The expedition members with Adrien de Gerlache, the Commander, on the far left

RMS Titanic - large copy plan of the ship
RMS Titanic: large copy plan of the ship. The plans were the property of George Tulloch, wreck explorer and salvager, and were probably used for his historic Titanic expeditions

Dr William Beebe, deep sea explorer, Bermuda
Dr William Beebe (1877-1962), American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, author and deep sea explorer, seen here in Bermuda

Umberto Cagnis Polar expedition ship, the Stella Polare
Polar Exploration of Umberto Cagni (1863-1932) of the Royal Italian Navy. He is best known for his leadership in the expedition (by dogsled)

Traces of the Franklin Expedition. Page from the Illustrated London News, 4th October 1851, showing images of meat cans and sacks left by the Erebus

Peru. Lima. Founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, 1535. Engraving 1850

Ecuador. San Francisco de Quito. Engraving, 1850. Color

Colombia. Bogota. Founded by Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, 1538. Engraving, 1850. Color

Galleon Saint Lucia. 17th century. The Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany in 1608 organized an expedition to northern Brazil, commanded by English captain Robert Thornton

Hanno the Navigator (c. 500 BC). Engraving. Colored
Hanno the Navigator (c.500 BC). Carthaginian navigator. Engraving by Bertrand. The Enlightenment, 1882. Colored

Henry Hudson (1565-1611) abandoned by his crew. Engraving. C
Henry Hudson (1565-1611). English navigator and Arctic explorer. Hudson abandoned by his crew. Engraving by Charles Barbant (?-1922). Colored

The ship Victoria in Seville. Engraving, 1807. Colored
The ship Victoria sited in Seville, Spain, having been around the world. Engraving, 1807. Colored

Disembarkation of Columbus in America by Llorens Masdeu
Eduardo Llorens Masdeu (1837-1912). Spanish painter. Disembarkation of Columbus in America, 1880. Maritime Museum. Barcelona. Spain

Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I on board his ship, the Golden Hind, in April 1581, not long after his circumnavigation of the world. 1581

Beardmore Glacier
Beardmore glacier; the two figures in the foreground are Wilson and Cherry-Garrard, both of whom are busy sketching Date: 1913

Belgica Expedition - Port of Antwerp, Belgium
The Belgica expedition which gathered many geological samples. The Belgica in Antwerp (Anvers), Belgium. Date: 1897-98

Ross / Cutting the Ice
During Rosss voyage to find Franklin, they have to cut out the ice to allow the Enterprise and the Investigator pass. Date: 1848 - 49

MAGELLAN
One of the five vessels of his fleet, the caravel Victoria Date: 1519 - 1521

Imaginary inhabitant of the planet Saturn
An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Saturn. The unstable surface would be impracticable except for light, insect-like life forms who would have to breathe a gaseous atmosphere. Date: 1939

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Neptune
The imaginary inhabitants of the planet Neptune have to put up with an unstable surface which is largely liquid, a dense atmosphere, very high gravity, and chemical storms. Date: 1940

Verney Lovett Cameron, traveller in Africa
Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894), traveller in Central Africa, the first European to cross equatorial Africa from coast to coast

French bank note, 50 Francs
French bank note, Banque de France, 50 Francs, issued on 19 May 1949. With a portrait of the French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (1811-1877) on the front

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