Arctic Collection (page 2)

Whaling ship, removing the whalebone

Arctic tableau, Royal Naval Exhibition of 1891 in London

Royal Naval Exhibition 1891 - Arctic tableau

Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R. 1 XV249
Royal Air Force - Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R.1 XV249, of no.51 Squadron at RAF Wyton. A replacement R.1 modified for use as Electronic and Signals Intelligence gathering aircraft, to replace XW666

RMS Titanic - shipping chart of North Atlantic for the month of April 1912, Sheet 133, Meteorological Office, London. The chart is in colour and displays wind, sea current, sea temperature

Cartoon: At Northward Ho!
Cartoon by Laurie Tayler showing the challenges of playing an arctic round of golf. Date: circa 1924

Tessie O'Shea - Welsh entertainer, singer and actress
Tessie O'Shea (1914-1995), Welsh entertainer, singer and actress

Franklin expedition - three graves at Cape Riley
Traces of the Franklin Expedition. The graves of three of Franklin's crew at Cape Riley, Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in Wellington Channel: John Torrington

Last Voyage Explorer Adventurer Discovery North
last, voyage, explorer, adventurer, discovery, north, west, passage, america, arctic, ice, icebergs, fateful, fate, certain, death, open, boat, cast, aderift, abandoned, young, son, crew, henry

Sir John Tenniel, artist, illustrator and cartoonist
Sir John Tenniel (1820 - 1914), British artist, illustrator and political cartoonist, who had just died. Seen here with two of his most famous Punch cartoons

Sami People - Early Photograph
The Sami people, (also known as Lapps, although this term is considered derogatory) are the indigenous people of northern Europe inhabiting Sapmi, which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden

Captain Sir John Franklin
Sir John Franklin (1786 - 1847), British Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic. Wearing his Royal Navy uniform, pictured shortly before departing on his ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845

Mock suns in the Arctic
Mock suns (parhelia) observed by Dutch polar bear hunters in the Arctic. Date: circa 1550

GEORGE WALLACE MELVILLE American naval officer and Arctic explorer with De Long, his party survived wreck and he headed rescue expedition which found De Long dead Date: 1841 - 1912

Hawker Siddeley HS. 801 Nimrod R. 1 XW665
Royal Air Force - Hawker Siddeley HS.801 Nimrod R.1 XW665 (msn 8040), of no.51 Squadron at RAF Wyton. One of three Nimrods especially ordered for use as Electronic

Hawker Siddeley HS. 801 Nimrod R. 1
Royal Air Force - Hawker Siddeley HS.801 Nimrod R.1, of no.51 Squadron at RAF Wyton. One of three Nimrods especially ordered for use as Electronic and Signals Intelligence gathering aircraft

Boeing VB-17G Flying Fortress N207EV Shady Lady (msn 32426, ex N809Z, ex 44-83785). This aircraft, registered as N809Z was operated by the CIA to drop scientists / agent on an abandoned Soviet

Hawker Siddeley HS. 801 Nimrod R. 1 XW664
Royal Air Force - Hawker Siddeley HS.801 Nimrod R.1 XW664 of no.51 Squadron at RAF Wyton. XW664 was one of three Nimrods especially ordered for use as Electronic

Critical position of the ship, the Investigator, part of the Ross Arctic expedition at Ballast Beach, Baring Island. Date: 1853

HMS Investigator, one of the ships in the Ross Arctic expedition, snow-walled for the winter. Date: 1850

The Ross Arctic Expedition - the expeditions ships housed in for winter. Engraving showing the darkness at midwinter, 21 December 1848. Date: 1849

The old Arctic exploring ship, HMS Resolute, broken up at Chatham Dockyard. Two sailors contemplate the wreck. Date: 1879

A page from the Illustrated London News, 12th February 1853, with illustrations of Her Majestys sloop Rattlesnake fitted for the new Arctic expedition; Digby Seymour

Sledge dogs
Canadian Eskimo Dogs or Canadian Inuit Dogs are an Arctic breed of working dog. Artist: Eileen Hood. Date: circa 1925

Historical views of Poland. Polish men in the city of Cracow 55, Peter the Wild Boy found in a forest near Hamelin 56, and the inflammable springs near Cracow 57

Historical views of Tartary. Funeral rites of a Tatar chieftain 13, Tatars abandoning the sick and aged to die in a hut 14

Polars bears at the London Hippodrome, January 1910
Seventy polar bears, transported there to take part in the theatres Christmas water spectacular, The Arctic. Fifty of them plunged from icebergs into the water while the remaining bears roamed about

Parasitic jaeger, Stercorarius parasiticus
Parasitic jaeger, arctic skua or parasitic skua, Stercorarius parasiticus (Arctic gull, Larus parasiticus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Greenland or harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus
Greenland or harp seal, male and female, Pagophilus groenlandicus. Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamiltons Amphibious Carnivora

Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus alpinus (Alpine salmon, Salmo alpinus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C

Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus alpinus (Salvelian charr, Salmo salvelinus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes

Arctic sunset with polar bears in snow and ice
Decorative Christmas frieze, Arctic sunset with polar bears in snow and ice

Arctic eskimo with snow and ice
Decorative Christmas frieze, Arctic eskimo with snow and ice

Frontispiece illustration, The Ice Desert, by Jules Verne -- He had plunged his knife up to the hilt in the animals throat. Date: circa 1900

Eskimos rowing a boat, Greenland
Eskimos rowing a long boat (known as an umiak), off the coast of Greenland (then a Danish colony). Date: 1922

Group of eskimo children, Greenland
Group of eskimo children in warm clothing, Greenland (then a Danish colony). Date: 1922

Eskimos outside their summer residence, Greenland
A group of eskimos outside their summer residence, Greenland (then a Danish colony). Date: 1922

Eskimo couple in winter costume, Greenland (then a Danish colony) -- the man holds his hunting rifle. Date: 1922

Italia airship, flying over the North Pole
Italia, a semi-rigid airship which flew over the North Pole and crashed in 1928. 1928

Poster, Pacific Northern Airlines, The Alaska Flag Line, with a map showing routes. 1958

Moonshine and Velvet, silver & blue studies Gladys Guy
Actress Gladys Guy set against a silver and inky blue Arctic landscape. Date: 1912

Advert for Gorringes womens furs 1937
Sunderland, wonderful cape of arctic fox, dyed blue fox shade and aslo Skipton, attractive stole of arctic fox, shaded light and dark grey, also plain platinum and lilac colourings. Date: 1937

Hawker Siddeley HS. 801 Nimrod R. 1 XW665
Hawker Siddeley HS.801 Nimrod R.1 XW665 of no.51 Squadron at RAF Wyton. XW665 was one of three Nimrods especially ordered for use as Electronic and Signals Intelligence gathering aircraft

John Rosss arctic expedition: Ross planting the British Standard on the true position of the Magnetic Pole. Date: 1829 - 33

Payer and Weyprecht, Austrian lieutenants, in their Arctic dress Date: 1874

SHIPS AMONG ICEBERGS
Seals and sea-birds watch as Sir John Franklins Erebus and Terror sail cautiously between Arctic icebergs. Date: 1845

SLEDGE IN ARCTIC 1870
Koldeweys second North Pole expedition - the team pull their heavily-laden sledge across the snowy waste. Date: 1869 - 1870

FALL / SAMOYEDS / 1935
Ten full champions all of the Arctic belonging to Miss M. Keyte-Perry. Date: 1935

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