Exploration Collection (page 11)

Parry / Hecla & Gripa / Iln
Edward Parry and his crew with Hecla & Griper cutting into their winter quarters at Winter Harbour, on the south side of Melville Island. Date: 1819

Stanley / Phalanx Dance
Emin Pasha relief expedition : he is entertained with a phalanx dance by Mazambonis warriors Date: 1887-8

Stanley / Tanganyika
Zaire expedition : he explores Lake Tanganyika Date: 1877

Ross and Icebergs
The Erebus and Terror amid icebergs in the course of James Rosss 1839- 1843 Antarctic expedition Date: 1842

Terror in the Ice
The Terror nipped in the ice in the course of James Rosss 1839- 1843 Antarctic expedition Date: January 1842

Ship Crushed by Ice
The rudder-post of H.M.S. Terror crushed by the ice in the course of James Rosss 1839- 1843 Antarctic expedition Date: January 1842

Ross and South Barrier
The Erebus and Terror amid the ice off the South Polar Ice Barrier, 700 km long, in the course of James Rosss 1839- 1843 Antarctic expedition Date: 1842

Ross in Pack Ice
The Erebus and Terror in pack ice, in gale conditions, off the South Polar Ice Barrier, in the course of James Rosss 1839-1843 Antarctic expedition Date: January 1842

Victoria Land Discovered
The discovery of Victoria Land by the Erebus and Terror in the course of James Rosss 1839-1843 Antarctic expedition Date: 1842

Lejean / Abyssinia
Lejean (1818-1872) accompanied by locals on a raft, looks out over an Abyssinian river

De Long / Reindeer Camp
George De Long (USA), in his ship Jeanette, proved that the Arctic Sea ice is moved by ocean currents. Drying furs at Reindeer Camp, King Williams Land. Date: 1879 - 81

De Long / Discover Relics
George De Long (USA), in his ship Jeanette, proved that the Arctic Sea ice is moved by ocean currents. Discovering relics of an 1847 expedition. Date: 1879 - 81

De Long / Lake Daly
George De Long (USA), in his ship Jeanette, proved that the Arctic Sea ice is moved by ocean currents. Midnight sun at the camp of Lake Daly. Date: 1879 - 81

Wilkins and his plane at Green Harbour, Spitsbergen
Wilkins and his plane at Green Harbour (Gronfjorden) - Spitsbergen. Date: 1928

Ross / Victory Abandoned
John Rosss arctic expedition: Abandoning the Victory. " They gathered on the Victory for the last time, nailed their colours to the mast, and started." Date: 1829 - 33

Ross / Saumarez River
John Rosss arctic expedition: The Saumarez River which never freezes in Latitude 70 degrees north and Longitude 92 degrees west. Date: 1829 - 33

Ross / Victory Sets Sail
John Rosss arctic expedition: The Victory under sail for the last time. Date: 1829 - 33

Ross / Chart of Voyage
John Rosss arctic expedition: chart of his last voyage. Date: 1829 - 33

Kane / Arctic Expedition
Elisha Kent Kanes Arctic expedition: the escape off Weary Mans Rest Date: 1853 - 1855

Brazza in Africa / Convoy
Brazzas explorations in equatorial Africa - organising a convoy Date: 1875 -1878

Discovery of relics of the Franklin polar expedition
Discovery of the cairn containing documents and relics of the Franklin polar expedition. Date: 1845

Relics of ill-fated Franklin polar expedition
Relics of the ill-fated Franklin polar expedition, found by searchers. Date: 1845

James Bruce in Africa
Explorer James Bruce reaches the source of the Blue Nile in Africa Date: 1770

Mr. Young describing search for Livingstone
Edward J. Young, British explorer of Africa, describing his search for Dr Livingstone at the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society at Burlington House in 1868. 1868

Livingstone / Southampton
Scene at Southampton Pier as Livingstones body is returned to England Date: 1874

Rear Column at Banalya
Emin Pasha relief expedition : meeting with the rear column at Banalya Date: 1888

Brazza in Africa / Ogooue
Brazzas explorations in equatorial Africa - negotiating rapids on the River Ogooue Date: 1875 -1878

Pioneer / Mozambala
The Pioneer passing Mozambala with boats in tow laden with parts for Livingstones Steamer. Date: 1862

Peruvian style raft
Hand-coloured engraving of Alexander Humboldt painting. Radeau de la Riviera de Guayaquil. Vues des Cordilleres, 1810. Date: 1810

Vombatus ursinus, common wombat
Plate 8 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

View of River Loukouga, tributary of Lake Tanganyika, Africa
View of a sailing boat on the River Loukouga (Lukuga), a tributary of Lake Tanganyika, Africa, at the time of John Hanning Spekes expedition to discover the Great Lakes of East Africa

Samuel Baker, explorer in East Africa, with his wife Florence, near the Karuma Falls. The natives assume he is Spekes brother, because their beards are similar. Date: circa 1864

Baker, Speke and Grant, explorers in East Africa
Samuel White Baker, John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant, explorers in East Africa, enjoying a civilised meal together under an awning. Date: 1863

Mrs Douglas Mawson, formerly Miss Delprat, wife of the Antarctic explorer. Douglas Mawson contacted his fianc頶 ia wireless to suggest she had better give up on him, but she waited and happily

Drilling an Oil Well - Boring by Turbine. Liquid mud is pumped at high pressure through a non-revolving pipe to a turbo drill (shown in the inset enlargement) at the bottom of the well

Rosita Forbes at Jaghbub crossing the Sahara Desert
Rosita Forbes (1890-1967), English travel writer and explorer at Jaghbub (a remote desert oasis village in the eastern Libyan Desert)

John Cabot receives charter from King Henry VII
John Cabot and his sons receive the charter from King Henry VII to sail in search of new lands. Date: 1496

Savages feel our muscle, Taiwan, 1890
Natives of the hill country of Bankimsing, Formosa(today Taiwan), explore the possessions of some English visitors that they encounter

Captain James Cook
British Admiralty memorial statue of Captain James Cook (1728-1779) who made maps of Newfoundland before his 3 journies on the Endeavour to the Pacific where he discovered Australia

Bear believed responsible for 1937yeti footprints on Everest
A page from the Illustrated London News in 1937, entitled The abominable snowman unmasked, reporting on confirmation that suspected yeti footprints discovered in the Himalayas were in fact those of

Lieutenant S. Gurney Cresswell
Lieutenant Samuel Gurney Cresswell, a royal navy officer and technically the first to cross the North-West passage. Although Robert McClure was in lead the expedition

Lincoln Ellsworth and pilots trans-Antarctica flight
Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, loading supplies into the " Polar Star", before the flight of the 2000 miles from Dundee Island across the Antarctic to the Bay of Whales

Found long missing Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot
American Lincoln Ellsworth and his British colleague and pilot, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon who on 23 November 1935, started from Dundee Island in an aeroplane Polar Star

Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot making preparations
Lincoln Ellsworth (left) and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (right), his pilot, making preparations for their trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island in an aeroplane Polar Star

Scouts exploring the bush, Australia
A group of Scouts exploring the bush in Australia

Captain James Cook -- an allegory
Captain James Cook (1728-1779), explorer. An allegory, showing Neptune raising him up to Immortality, a Genius crowning him with a Wreath of Oak, and Fame introducing him to History

A scene in a toddy palm plantation
A drawing by Paul Hermann from the collection of five volumes of specimens and drawings from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1672-1677. (Vol. 5 Page 307)

Members of the Cho Oyu expedition, Nepal. (L. to R.) standing: Mr R. G. College; Mr E. Hillary; Mr E Shipton; Dr. L.G.C. Pugh; Mr H. E. Riddiford; Mr G. Lowe. sitting: Mr C.H. Secord; Mr R.C

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