Antarctic Collection (page 6)

Drawing of a seal intestine by Edward Wilson. Drawn during the Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole 1910-1913

Mollusc, Arca (Barbatia) novaezelandiae
Specimen collected by Robert Falcon Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition

Diorite intruded by microgranite
Geological specimen collected by Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition. It had a broad scientific programme and collected thousands of geological

Group of Adeliee Penguins feeding their young
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Terra Nova reports
The collection of reports made during the 1910 Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica, including reports on zoology, geology, meteorology, physiography, magnestism and glaciology

Terra Nova Fish report
Plate X from the Fish report by Regan, taken from Volume I of the British Anarctic (Terra Nova) Natural History Reports

Letter to the Museum from Kathleen Scott, wife of Captain Ro
Letter to the Museum dated 25th April 1913 from Kathleen Scott regarding the specimens collected by Scott and his team in Antarctica

Kenyte lava
Geological specimen collected by Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition. It had a broad scientific programme and collected thousands of geological

Mollusca drawings
Plate 1 of Volume II of the British Anarctic (Terra Nova) Natural History reports

Aptenodytes forsteri, Emperor Penguin egg
Egg specimens collected during the Terra Nova expedition to Antartica

Adeliee Penguins, Cape Adare
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Illustration of a seal intestine
Drawing of a seal intestine by Edward Wilson. Drawn during the Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole 1910-1913

Detail from the Wilson notebook
Photograph of page 13 from Edward Wilsons field notebook from the Terra Nova expedition

Sketch of Dolphins by Edward Wilson
Plate one from Edward Wilson sTerra Nova sketch book showing three dolphins

Group of Adeliee Penguins, Cape Adare
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Adeliee penguin skeleton Pygoscelis adeliae
Specimen collected by Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition. It had a broad scientific programme and collected thousands of geological

Brittle star, Astrotoma agassizii
Specimen collected by Robert Falcon Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition

Adeliee Penguin group
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Aptenodytes forsteri, Emperor penguin eggs
Eggs of Aptenodytes forsteri (Emperor penguin) brought back from Apsley Cherry-Garrards 1911 Antarctic expedition. The holes were made to allow investigation of the embryos

Thalassoica antarctica, Antarctic petrel
Ff. 95. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Procellaria antarctica made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Ranunculus biternatus, antarctic buttercup
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Ranunculus flaccidus

Ice Station Antarctica exhibition
Ice Station Antarctica, temporary exhibition, on display 25 May 2007 - 20 April 2008

Maorites densicostatus, ammonite
This flat-shelled ammonite dates from the Lower to Middle Campanian of the Upper Cretaceous, Vega Island, Graham Land, Antarctica

Oldest rocks on Earth

Historical specimens from left to right
Specimen jars containing a hawkfish from the first Endeavour voyage, two female swimming crabs collected on the Investigator voyage and Eleginops maclovinus, collected during the Beagle voyage

Antarctic Discovery Collections
Specimens preserved in toxic formalin carry clear hazard labels to alert researchers. This batch forms a very small part of the extensive Antartic Discovery Collections

Cladhymenia oblongifolia
Plate CXXVII from The Botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839-1843, Volume 2 (1847), by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

Glyptonotus antarcticus

Carbonate
The formation of carbonate on the Allan Hills martian meteorite ALH84001

Leptonychotes weddellii, Weddell seal
Mother Weddell seal with pup. Folio 1906. Ref. Z88fw. Watercolour by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912) from reports of the Discovery Expedition to Antarctica, 1901-1904. Folio 1906. Ref. Z88fw

Excavations, Antarctica
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum engage in excavating dinosaur fossils on Vega Island, Antarctica

Antarctic fish illustration
Watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from his Drawings of Antartic Fish, 1889. Plate no 12

The Terra Nova leaving Portsmouth
Captain Scotts vessel, the Terra Nova in which he sailed to the Antarctic in his great effort to reach the South Pole, pictured leaving the South West India Dock in Portsmouth in June 1910

Jean Charcot, Explorer
JEAN B E A CHARCOT French explorer in the Antarctic, described as " the gentleman of the Pole" by Scott. Date: 1867 - 1936

The Gaumont Co. L T D. London presents the motion picture records of the undying story of Capt. Scott and animal life in the Antarctic. Motion picture poster for Capt

RSS Discovery Exhibition with sea plane on deck
Scene during an RSS Discovery Exhibition, with a sea plane on deck -- it is an Auster aircraft used by in the Swedish Norwegian British Antarctic Expedition of 1950. 1951

Captain Scotts cabin, RSS Discovery
Captain Scotts cabin on RSS Discovery, showing a bunk bed and drawers underneath. The ships first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition

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

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

The Deck of the Fram, 1912
Photograph showing the deck at the stern of the Fram, the ship used by Roald Amundsen in his Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12

Antarctic Sunset
in the Antarctic autumn. Date: circa 1907

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