Explorer Gallery

Captain Robert Falcon Scott - Frys Cocoa Advert

Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), the English naval commander and explorer. A Captain in the Royal Navy, Scott led a number of expeditions to the Antarctic, dying in a 1912 attempt to reach the South Pole. This promotional card for Fry's depicts Scott and his expedition party setting out on their final attempt on the Pole with dog teams and sleds, laden high with Fry's produce!

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), British explorer, dressed for Antarctic conditions. Shackleton made four expeditions to the South Pole during his career. This image commemorates his second, when he came within 97 miles of the South Pole, at that time a record

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Burial of De Soto on the Mississippi

Spanish soldiers lower the wrapped body of Hernando De Soto into the Mississippi River. A soldier holds a torch as a priest reads from the Bible. His men did this in the dead of night, and weighted his corpse down with sand, as they were trying to conceal his death by fever from the Guachoya people, whom among other native peoples he had been trying to convince he was the son of the Sun, to varying success. Date: 1542

© Mary Evans Picture Library