Glacial Collection

Cave art paintings, prehistoric discovery
A cave painting of small brown and red stags with horses, composed in Greek style, between two large black bull heads. Cave art discoveries in the Dordogne were by the Aurignacians who sought refuge

Annotated postcard showing Lake District Peaks, Cumbria - Crummock, Honister Crag, Whiteless Pike, High Stile and Buttermere all feature. Date: circa 1920s

Garden at Cadenabbia, Lake Como, Lombardy, Italy
Cadenabbia is a small community in Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Como, on the west shore of Lake Como. Lake Como is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy

Errahc Giants Stone, Altnadun, Co. Down - a close in view of a young girl beside a glacial round stone in a field. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Altnadun). Date: circa early 1900s

Glacial rock, Halifax 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

The Largest Glacial Kettle at Taylor Falls, Minnesota, USA
The Largest Glacial Kettle (Pot Hole) at Taylor Falls, Minnesota, USA. Date: circa 1930s

View of Changu Lake (aka Tsomgo, Tsongmo or Changgu Lake), a glacial lake in East Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British

Hunting for food in the later Ice Age (Last Glacial Period), showing a family of cave dwellers with bow and arrow. At this time there was no English Channel

CLIMBING GLACIAL ICE
A mountaineer climbing glacial ice with his pickaxe, in the highlands of the Mount Baker National Forest Park, Washington State, USA. Date: 1930s

Myvatn Lake, Iceland with Sellandafjall mountain behind
An old farm implement on the banks of Myvatn Lake, Iceland. Snow covered Sellandafjall mountain is in the background Date: 1986

The Namafjall hverir geothermal area in Iceland
Steam rises in the dramatic scenery of the Namafjall hverir geothermal area in Iceland Date: 1986

Big Stone - Cloughmore, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
The Big Stone - Cloughmore, Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland. This 30-ton granite boulder perches on the slopes of Slieve Meen, 1000 ft above the village of Rostrevor

Zermatt, Switzerland with surrounding Alpine peaks (many named). Date: circa 1910s

Tibet, Ice Caverns on Rongbuk Glacier, Mallory Expedition
Ice Caverns on the Rongbuk Glacier located in the Himalaya of southern Tibet. The English climber George Mallory first explored the main Rongbuk Valley

Glacial Striations on Chalk, Kilcoan, Islandmagee - a close in view of scrapes on an exposed chalk outcrop. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Islandmagee). Date: circa early 1900s

Cliffs of Glacial Debris at Entrance to the Glen, Kilkeel, Co. Down - a picture of rock debris and valley with two women there. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Kilkeel)

Boulder of Dolerite Deposited During the Glacial Period, Templepatrick - with the photographer in the picture for scale. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Templepatrick)

Large Letter Card - Greetings from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1940

Tillite
This Tillite specimen is from Kimberley, South Africa. Tillites are the consolidated remains of the rock fragments and powder that are left behind as a glacier melts and retreats

Glacial pavement with the scratch marks made by an overriding ice sheet. Such marks can be found where there are sites of former glacial activity

Glacial rock and Block House, Halifax 1873
The Point Glacier Rock Halifax, showing action of glacial sea on surface of rock, Halifax

Ice scratched boulder
This ice scratched boulder probably originates from a valley once occupied by a glacier. Such marks can be found where there are sites of former glacial activity

Pleistocene glacial landscape
During the Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago to 10, 000 years), ice covered much of Britain north of the Thames. Cold climate animals included the woolly mammoth (left) Mammuthus primigenius

Ritten Plateau, Tyrol, Italy - Erdpyramids
The Renon/Ritten Plateau - the spectacular and bizarre Earth pyramids (Erdpyramids). The raw material for the earth pyramids comes from moraine clays deposited by the main Eisack valley glacier

Simplon - Switzerland - The Miner
A Miner from the Simplon region of Switzerland. It looks as if he is about to lead a guided tour of a tunnel system cut through glacial ice. Date: circa 1905

Switzerland - Ascending a glacier
Switzerland - Fice climbers scale a glacier Date: circa 1910s

Multiplication is vexation by Ethel Parkinson
Three large penguins line up to be taught some mathematics by a strict little eskimo child

Walrus and children
Two children, wrapped up charmingly against the cold in white, furry outfits, look fairly sanguine about meeting an enormous walrus. Then again, they are trudging around a glacier on their own

We Are a Merry Family by Ethel Parkinson
Charming illustration showing two Eskimos or Inuit people dancing in a friendly manner with a polar bear in a glacial environment

Lancashire Scenery
A fine view of the Trough of Bowland, on the edge of Bowland Forest, Lancashire, with a bicycle propped up against a signpost

Fleeing Glacial Flood
Humans and other animals flee southwards before the glacial flood which devastates Europe at the end of the Ice Age

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