Explorer Collection

Richard Vines at Crawford Notch
British explorer Richard Vines at Crawford Notch, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Vines stands by a river, holding a walking stick, as he makes his way along the pass. Date: 1619

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

Vasco da Gama in India
Portuguese Colonial History Series - Vasco da Gama has an audience with The King of Calicut (Kozhikode), the Samudiri (Zamorin) in May 1498

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Photograph of Sir Richard Francis Burton, the English explorer, linguist and diplomat. A master of up to 30 languages, Burton made a pilgrimage to Mecca disguised as a Pathan in 1853

Map of Africa illustrating travels of explorers
A map of Africa which illustrates the travels of the explorers Livingstone, Stanley and Cameron

Captain Scott in his workshop on board Terra Nova
Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 - 1912), British polar explorer and leader of the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912, pictured in his work room on board the Terra Nova

Map of Africa illustrating travels of explorers
A map of Africa which illustrates the travels of Livingstone, Stanley and Cameron. Date: 19th Century

Shackleton / Graphic 1914
ERNEST SHACKLETON Irish Antartic explorer, photographed before his bid to cross the Antartic continent in 1914

Shackleton Portrait
ERNEST SHACKLETON Naval officer and explorer of the Antarctic. Date: 1874 - 1922

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, polar explorer
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874 - 1922), Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer. Seen here at the age of 40 in windproof garments

Sir Ernest Shackleton and others, Antarctic
Sir Ernest Shackleton and three members of a polar exploration party, photographed within 111 miles of the South Pole in 1907-9 on board the Nimrod

Raphus cucullatus, dodo
Plate 1 from Memoirs on the Dodo by Sir Richard Owen, 1866

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
Photograph of Captain Roald Engelbreth Gravning Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, in his cold weather clothing and skis, Antarctica, 1912

Percy H Fawcett, British explorer
PERCY H FAWCETT British explorer who disappeared while exploring the Matto Grosso of Brazil

Cabral and Coutinho fly from Portugal to Brazil
Gabo Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral - Portuguese aviators who flew from Lisbon, Portugal to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1922 in a Fairey IIIB Float plane- the first time this feat was achieved

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892)
Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. Born in Leicester 8 February 1825, died London, 16 February 1892

The Trireme of Pytheas
Pytheas, a Greek geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massalia (modern day Marseilles) commands a large trireme, travelling around a large part of modern day Britain. Date: 4th Century B.C

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

Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator and explorer
Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator, coloniser and explorer on behalf of Spain. He undertook four voyages of exploration, first reaching the American continent in 1492

Scott of the Antarctic and his predecessors
Illustration showing Captain Scott with his team flying the Union Jack flag, along with the names of previous polar explorers with the chronology traced back over a map of Antarctica

Inside Shackletons Hut
The interior of the hut of Ernest Shackleton (1907-9), which has been preserved in exactly the same state as left by Shackleton Date: 2005

Mary Henrietta Kingsley, traveller and writer, in her canoe on the Ogooue (Ogowe) River in Gabon, West Central Africa, in 1896

Hm Stanley / Cdv Photo
HENRY MORTON STANLEY British journalist and explorer, in the clothes he wore to meet Livingstone in 1871

Shackleton [Ritchie]
Sir ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON Irish Antarctic explorer

Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and scientist
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian, seen here at the time he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of the displaced victims of

Captain Cook / M Smith
JAMES COOK Explorer

Mungo Park reaches Kamalia, Africa
The Scottish explorer Mungo Park reaches Kamalia in Mandingo (Mandinka, Mandinko) country, West Africa

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)
Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian naturalist and explorer. Engraved by J. Horsburgh, and published by Oliver & Boyd Edinburgh

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
Photographic portrait of Roald Engelbreth Gravning Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who was the first man to navigate the Northwest Passage and reach the South Pole

John King / Explorer
JOHN KING Explorer; part of the Burke and Wills expedition to Australia

Amundsen at the Pole
Norwegian explorer Amundsen and his colleagues at the South Pole

William Dampier
WILLIAM DAMPIER English buccaneer and explorer

Scallop dredgers, Kirkcudbright Harbour, SW Scotland
Scallop fishing dredgers tied up alongside the wall at low tide on the harbourside at Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. MacClellans Castle looms overhead Date: 2010

Christopher Columbus at La Rabida, 1872. By F. Adam
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Genoese navigator. Columbus at the Convent of La Rabida, 1872. Copy by F. Adam of the homonimous painting by Eduardo Cano de la Pena. Maritime Museum. Barcelona

Plaza Colon and Cathedral, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Plaza Colon (with statue of Christopher Columbus) and Cathedral (Our Lady of the Candelaria or Candlemas), Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, North Atlantic Ocean. Date: circa 1905

The Lady Traveller: Olive MacLeod in Africa 1911
Olive MacLeod depicted outside her bivouac in " the heart of Africa". MacLeod was the younger daughter of the Permanent Under-Secretary for Scotland Sir Reginald MacLeod

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Engraving. Colored
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Explorer and navigator genoese. Columbus taking possession of the island of San Salvador. Engraving by Martin Rico after a painting of Isidro Gil

Bristol - Cabot Tower, Brandon Hill. The tower was built in the 1890s to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the journey of the Genoese explorer John Cabot from Bristol to lands which later became

Tatler cover - Rosita Forbes
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a photograph of Rosita Forbes (1893-1967) British traveller and author (later Mrs. A. T. McGrath)

Hernan Cortes (1488-1547). Engraving. Colored
Hernan Cortes (1488-1547). Spanish conqueror of Mexico. Engraving by A. Carretero in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1884. Colored

The landing of Nuno Tristao in Guinea
Portuguese Colonial History Series - The landing of Nuno Tristao (15th century Portuguese explorer and slave trader) in Guinea - purported to be the first European visitor to the country

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) see 51935
Bates collections and notebooks are held at the Natural History Museum, London. Bates is best known for his publication Naturalis on the River Amazon (1863) and his work on mimicry

Captain Scotts Departure for Antarctica
Two photographs reporting the departure of Captain Scott and his team on board the Terra Nova, bound for Antarctica where they would attempt to reach the South Pole first

Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian naval commander
Admiral Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak (1874-1920), Russian naval commander during the First World War, polar explorer, and leader of the anti-communist White forces during the Russian Civil War

Frank Wild (1873-1939)
Photographic portrait of Frank Wild, the British naval officer and explorer, London, c.1916. Wild had just returned to Britain following his role as second in command during Ernest Shackletons

Charles Livingstone
REV. CHARLES LIVINGSTONE (1821 - 1873) Co-wrote The Zambesi and its tributaries with his explorer brother David. Travelled extensively in Africa where he died in 1873

Alexandre-Henri Mouhot
HENRI MOUHOT French naturalist and explorer; discovered the ruins of Angkor in Cambodia in 1858

Roald Amundsen
ROALD AMUNDSEN Norwegian polar explorer

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