Geographical Collection (page 3)

ALARCON, Hernando de (1500- )-. Spanish navigator and explorer. He drew the first geographical map of the peninsula of California and the western coast of Mexico

ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. 1570. It is considered to be the first modern atlas. Map of the Caribbean Sea with the islands of Cuba, Cayman Islands

MEXICO. Xochicalco. Ceremonial Center. Quetzalcoatl Pyramid. Teotihuacan culture

INDIA. MAHARASHTRA. Ellora. Ellora Caves. Kailasa Temple (cave n. 16), built between 757-783. Hindu art

MALI. TIMBUKTU. Tombouctou. Adobe traditional

HONDURAS. COPAN. CopᮮMaya god. Maya art
HONDURAS. COPAN. Copß«« Maya god. Maya art

SRI LANKA. Mihintale. Golden Temple. Sitting Buddha

AUSTRIA. Linz. Statue of Johannes Kepler

CHINA. Jiayuguan. The Silk Road. Gobi Desert. Jiayu Fort

Fountain, monument and pillar, Kiev, Ukraine
View of a fountain in Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti) with a monument to the legendary founders of the city of Kiev, the three brothers Kyi (also Kiy, Kij or Kyj)

Captain F. E. Younghusband
Portrait of Captain F. E. Younghusband of the Kings Dragoon Guards, who won one of the two gold medals granted yearly by the Royal Geographical Society to distinguished explorers. Date: 1890

Geographical Centre of North America at Rugby, North Dakota. Date: circa 1930

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker(1817-1911). English botanist and explorer. Engraving. Universal History, 1885. Colored

Henri Cordier (1849-1925). Trouville. The Chalet Cordier, cu
Henri Cordier (1849-1925). French linguist, historian and author. Trouville. The Chalet Cordier, current residence of Thiers. Engraving by Capuz. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1872. Colored

Goryu Waterfall - Yabakei River Gorge, Japan
Rickety-looking crossing above the Goryu Waterfall - Yabakei River Gorge, Japan - near Nakatsu City, Oita Prefecture - formed by the Yamakuni River. Date: circa 1908

Yabakei River Gorge, Japan - near Nakatsu City, Oita Prefecture - formed by the Yamakuni River. Date: circa 1908

John Duncan, Explorer
JOHN DUNCAN Guardsman who became an explorer in West Africa, making valuable observations not only geographical but also of native superstitions. Date: 1895 - 1849

Fried. Justin Bertuch
FRIEDRICH JUSTIN BERTUCH German founder of the Geographical Institute at Weimar. Date: 1747 - 1822

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

GREECE. WESTERN GREECE. ELIS. Olympia. Temple of Hera (Heraion) in ruins, Dorian style. Built around 600 BC. Archaic Greek art

GAUDI i CORNET, Antoni (1852-1926). Milࠈouse or
GAUDI i CORNET, Antoni (1852-1926). Milࠈ ouse or La Pedrera. 1906-1910. SPAIN. Barcelona. Modernism. Architecture

GAUDI i CORNET, Antoni (1852-1926). Vicens House. SPAIN. Barcelona. Carolines street, in the neighbourhood of Grࣩ a (Barcelona, Spain). Modernism. Architecture

LLENA, Antoni (1942). David and Goliath. 1992. SPAIN. Barcelona. Located in Les Cascades Park, in Vila Olimpica. Made of painted stainless steel and resin. Sculpture

Atlas Novus. Asia. Chinese people, 17th c
BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673). Atlas Novus or Atlas Maior. 1635 - 1665. Asia noviter delineata. Map of Asia printed in Amsterdam ca 1635. Detail with people from China ( Chinenses ). Etching

DURLSTON GREAT GLOBE
The Great Globe at Durlston Head, near Swanage, Dorset, England. a remarkable large scale geographical sphere of the world, created for George Burt from Portland Stone. Date: 1887

Carlo Piaggia
CARLO PIAGGIA Italian traveller, recounting his adventures to the Geographical Society of Cairo. Date: 1827 - 1882

Russian Polar Explorer - Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel
A superb portrait of Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel (1903-1971) - a Soviet Arctic explorer, radio operator, doctor of geographical sciences (1938)

A full-scale replica of Sputnik I is viewed by Isolde Dawe of Acton, London, at the UNESCO International Geophysical Year exhibition at the Royal Geographical Societys headquarters in Kensington

Map of Rio Negro & Rio Vaupes
Alfred Russel Wallaces map showing the Rio Negro and the Rio Vaupes, published in Wallaces On the Rio Negro Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 23:223-217 held at the Natural History Museum

Geological timescale
A diagram showing geological time on earth as expressed in a spiral starting with earth in a molten state and progressing through deserts to the rise of mountain ranges and volcanoes

Mammalia (class), mammals
Plate 11 from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, with a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earths surface, by Alfred Russel Wallace, 1876

Oceanic and continental crust
A cross section of the Earths surface showing the continental crust on the left and oceanic crust on the right. Beneath the surface layer lies the Basaltic layer (in green) and the Mantle (in grey)

Mouth of the river Santa Cruz, map
Map (p.338 - 339), from Charles Darwins Narrative of the voyages of HM Ships Adventure and Beagle part 2, 1839

SPAIN. Santillana de Mar. Santa Juliana Collegiate Church. Romanesque art

MEXICO. VERACRUZ. El Taj�Estructure 5 and
MEXICO. VERACRUZ. El Taj� Estructure 5 and the Nichos Pyramid. Totonacan art

MEXICO. Palenque. El Palacio. Maya ruins. Maya

MEXICO. STATE OF MEXICO. TeotihuacᮮThe Sun
MEXICO. STATE OF MEXICO. Teotihuacᮮ The Sun Pyramid. Teotihuacan culture

SPAIN. M鲩da. Roman Theatre. Wall behind the
SPAIN. M鲩 da. Roman Theatre. Wall behind the stage

MOROCCO. Moulay-idriss. View of Volubilis Roman city

MEXICO. HIDALGO. Tula. Quetzalcoatl Temple and Atlantes Statues. Toltec art

MEXICO. VERACRUZ. El Taj�El Tajin Chico. Building
MEXICO. VERACRUZ. El Taj� El Tajin Chico. Building 1. Totonacan art

MEXICO. VERACRUZ. El Taj�The Nichos Pyramid
MEXICO. VERACRUZ. El Taj� The Nichos Pyramid

MEXICO. Cancun. Chac Mool Statue. Pre-Columbian art

MEXICO. OAXACA. Monte AlbᮮNorthern Platform
MEXICO. OAXACA. Monte Albᮮ Northern Platform. Pre-Columbian art

SPAIN. Valladolid. Museo Casa de Cervantes

MEXICO. STATE OF MEXICO. TeotihuacᮮQuetzalcoatl
MEXICO. STATE OF MEXICO. Teotihuacᮮ Quetzalcoatl

SPAIN. Valladolid. Birthplace of Jos頚orrilla
SPAIN. Valladolid. Birthplace of Jos頚 orrilla. Bedroom

MEXICO. Xochicalco. Ceremonial Center. Pyramid. Teotihuacan culture

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