Antarctica Collection (page 3)

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

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

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

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

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

Diagram of food depots for the Scott polar expedition
Diagrams showing how the food depots were distributed along the 750 mile route of the British Antarctic expedition to the South Pole led by Captain Scott

The Antarctic Drama - page from The Sphere
Page from The Sphere which tells of the ill-fated expedition of Captain Scott and his team, showing a picture of the inner tent used by Scott and the others

Memorial Service to the Polar Heroes at St Pauls Cathedral
A birds-eye view of the interior of St. Pauls Cathedral during the memorial service to Captain Scott and his four companions who lost their lives on the return from their failed attempt to be

Parents and brother of Captain Robert Falcoln Scott
Portrait of John Edward Scott, father of Captain Scott the polar explorer, together with his mother and his brother, the late Lieutenant Archibald O Connor Scott

Dr E. A Wilson of the Scott Polar Expedition
Dr Edward Wilson, biologist and artist on the British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain Scott. Wilson died along with Scott and Bowers in their tents during a blizzard in March 1912

Why Captain Scott did not rely wholly on dogs
Page from The Sphere with drawings and photographs of the huskies used in Captain Scotts first polar expedition in 1901-4

A suggested site for a memorial to Captain Scott in London, at the bottom of Regent Street, close to the memorial to Sir John Franklin

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