Explorer Collection (page 10)

Florence Parbury, traveller and war worker
Florence Parbury, described by the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News as one of our most versatile and accomplished women, and a great traveller

Nansens North Pole Expedition - Explorer Captain Otto Sverdrup Seen Here in his Cabin, England. Picture taken on the initial leg of Fridtjof Nansens first journey to the North Pole

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

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)

Christopher Columbus nears the New World
Christopher Columbus about to set his eyes on the New World for the first time, after his perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean, sighting the Bahamas archipelago on 12th October, 1492

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

SOTO, Hernando de (1499-1542). Spanish explorer and conquistador. Engraving

VALDES Y FLORES, Cayetano (1767-1834). Commander of the Spanish Navy, explorer, and captain general who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. ROLDAN, Jos頨 1808-1871)

DIEULAFOY, Jane (1851-1916). French archaeologist, explorer, novelist and journalist. She was the wife of Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy. Engraving

QUESADA, Gonzalo Jim鮥z de (1509-1579). Spanish
QUESADA, Gonzalo Jim鮥 z de (1509-1579). Spanish explorer and conquistador in Colombia. Oil

ALCALA GALIANO Y DE ALCALA, Dionisio (1760-1805). Spanish naval officer, cartographer, and explorer. Litography

AZARA, F鬩x de (1746-1821). Spanish explorer, naturalist
AZARA, F鬩 x de (1746-1821). Spanish explorer, naturalist, engineer and cartographer. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Stanley and his boy Kululu
Hand coloured. Illustration of African boy in a loin cloth sits at the feet of a Caucasian man, wearing the clothes of an explorer.This is believed to be Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)

Stanley and Followers
Hand coloured. A posed photograph of African men and women sitting/standing in rows. Many have headwraps and colourful shawls. A Caucasian man in a suit and top hat sits in the centre

Sydney, Australia - Silver Mine - Broken Hill
Slide showing a photograph of a Silver mine. Broken Hill is Australias longest-lived mining city. In 1844, the explorer Charles Sturt saw and named the Barrier Range

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

Christopher Columbus (1446-1506) - Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Monument to the explorer at Genoa. Date: 1446-1506

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

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

Joseph Rene Bellot (1826 1853) French Arctic naval explorer in the Antarctic

Sir Ernest Shackleton, polar explorer, photographed in 1914, before his departure on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1874 - 1922

Aboriginal burial site in Van Diemens Land (Tasmania)
Western explorer examining an aboriginal burial site in Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). There is a ship on the sea in the background. Date: 1803

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902 1974), American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. Photographed here on his first Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on the 2021 May

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

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914 -1917
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: how and whence the expedition proposes to start. Showing the proposed methods of transport from the Weddell Sea Base to the South Pole. Date: 1914

Polar bears celebrate Peary reaching the North Pole
Dancing Polar Bears raise glasses of champagne and toast Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (18561920), the American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6th 1909

Col. Joe Shelley
Portrait photograph of Col. Joe Shelley (Mexican Joe). Veteran scout, big game hunter, explorer and missionary in Equatorial Africa. Date: 1889

Mitchell Hedges off exploring again, 1926
Archaeologist and explorer Mr. F.A Mitchell Hedges(1882-1959) receives a hearty send off at Paddington railway station, London

Slavers Raiding a Village on the Aruwimi River, Central Afri
Engraving showing Arab slavers raiding a village beside the Aruwimi River, as seen from the Yambuya Camp occupied by Sir Henry Morton Stanleys Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1888

Tippoo Tibs Grand Canoes on the Congo River, 1888
Engraving showing Tippoo Tibs grand canoes travelling down the Congo River during Sir Henry Morton Stanleys Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1888

Nathaniel Wyeth
NATHANIEL JARVIS WYETH American trader and explorer Date: 1802 - 1856

Hubert Wilkins - 2
SIR HUBERT WILKINS Australian explorer in 1929 Date: 1888 - 1958

William Chas. Wentworth
WILLIAM CHARLES WENTWORTH Australian statesman and explorer Date: 1793 - 1872

Joseph Thomson
JOSEPH THOMSON explorer in Africa Date: 1858 - 1894

John M douall Stewart
JOHN N DOUALL STEWART Australian explorer Date: 1815 - 1866

Georg Van Spilbergen
JORIS (GEORG) VAN SPILBERGEN (or Speilbergen) Flemish explorer who sailed round the world 1614 - 1617 Date: 1568 - 1620

Paul Soleillet
PAUL SOLEILLET - French explorer in West Africa, mostly, but he died in Aden after authoring several books about his journeyings. Date: 1842 - 1886

Benjamin Leigh Smith
BENJAMIN LEIGH SMITH Aectic explorer in his steam yacht Eira who had to be rescued in 1882. Date: 1828 - 1913

Sir George Simpson
SIR GEORGE SIMPSON explorer in Canada with his autograph. Date: 1792 - 1860

DE DEMELE
de DEMELE French explorer Date: ? - 1880

William Scoresby 1760=
WILLIAM SCORESBY Explorer in the Arctic Date: 1760 - 1829

Rudolf Samoilovich
RUDOLF LAZAROVICH SAMOILOVICH Russian explorer in the Arctic, with the ice-breaker Krassin. Date: CIRCA 1930

Sir John Ross
Sir JOHN ROSS Arctic explorer Date: 1777 - 1856

Sir John Ross Photo
Sir JOHN ROSS Arctic explorer, photographed in old age. Date: 1777 - 1856

Gerhard Rohlfs
FRIEDRICH GERHARD ROHLFS German explorer, the first European to visit Giarabub, Libya. Date: 1831 - 1896

PEARY 1898
ROBERT EDWIN PEARY American explorer in the Arctic whose claims are still in question. Date: 1856 - 1920

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