Polar Collection (page 11)

Frank Coffyn, the Polar Aviator in a Wright Model B hydroplaning on the ice-clogged Hudson River, 4 February 1912

Northrop Gamma 2B NR12269 Polar Star
Northrop Gamma 2B, NR12269, Polar Star, in its original configuration

Polar bear on the North Pole spying on a balloon

Ursus maritimus, Polar bear
Part of the collection amassed by Walter Rothschild in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. On display at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Aptenodytes forsteri, Emperor penguin eggs
Eggs of Aptenodytes forsteri (Emperor penguin) brought back from Apsley Cherry-Garrards 1911 Antarctic expedition. The holes were made to allow investigation of the embryos

Gallery 1, The Natural History Museum at Tring
The Natural History Museum at Tring. Once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), and part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Polar bear- Grizzly bear hybrid, specimen on display at the Natural History Museum, Tring

The Terra Nova leaving Portsmouth
Captain Scotts vessel, the Terra Nova in which he sailed to the Antarctic in his great effort to reach the South Pole, pictured leaving the South West India Dock in Portsmouth in June 1910

Peary & Cook / Assiette
Returning from the North Pole, Robert Peary returned home to find Frederick Cook claiming he had reached it the previous year. " What a hole, the Pole!" Date: 1909

A moonlight picture of the America taken Christmas night, 1901, Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition. Photograph shows ship in ice. Date 1901 December 25

The romantic spectacle, Under the polar star written by Clay M. Greene. Date c1896

Exhibition on board RSS Discovery
Exhibition about an Antarctic expedition on board the training ship RSS Discovery. circa 1951

Polar tableau, RSS Discovery Exhibition
A polar tableau at an RSS Discovery Exhibition, showing a tent, a husky dog, skis, a flag and snow, as used on the the film set at Ealing Studios. 1948

RSS Discovery exhibition with celebrities and penguin
Scene on board RSS Discovery during an exhibition, showing the British actor John Mills, the naturalist Peter Scott (son of Captain Scott), a zoo keeper, and five Sea Scouts in polar costume

Titanic - How Ice Blink reveals the presence of bergs
Diagram in The Sphere during the inquiry into the Titanic disaster showing how ice blink reveals the presence of bergs underneath the water

RSS Discovery in the Antarctic. Launched in 1901 and designed for Antarctic research, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain

Exercising dogs in New Zealand prior to Scott Polar Expediti
Husky dogs being exercised on the New Zealand shore in preparation for the Captain Scott expedition to Antarctica in which Scott

Breaking in ponies for the Scott Polar Expedition
Breaking in one of the twenty Siberian ponies to be taken on board the Terra Nova as part of the Captain Scott Polar expedition of 1911 - 12

Shipping Shell Motor Spirit on board the Terra Nova at Sydney for the motor sledges used by Captain Scott during his 1911-12 Antarctic expedition

Final preparations for the Scott expedition
Taking twenty Siberian ponies on board the Terra Nova before the ship carrying Captain Scott and his team departed from New Zealand

New Year Greetings Card - Sleigh. An elegant lady in an ornate sleigh, made more comfortable by a Polar Bear rug and the companionship of a friendly piglet

Arctic Bear Hunter
An arctic bear hunter, on top of a mound of snow, searching for the body of the bear he has just shot through the skull. 1930s

Catholic Mission - Chesterfield, Newfoundland
The Eskimo (Inuit) Catholic Mission - Chesterfield, Newfoundland and Labrador in January. Date: circa 1920s

Blizzard on Barrier
Ponies at the camp during a blizzard on the Barrier. Date: 1907 - 1909

Music in the Hut
Members of Shackletons Antarctic expedition enjoy music in their hut. Date: circa 1907

Picking up Party
The Nimrod picking up the Northern Party at the Drygalski Barrier. Date: 1907 - 1909

Cook and Peary
- and PEARY : the card features both explorers, but discreetly doesn t indicate which of the two is the true discoverer of the North Pole. Date: 1908 - 1909

The Returning Sun
THE RETURNING SUN Date: 1908-1909

Adelie Penguins
Adelie penguins and their young. Date: 1907 - 1909

Emperor Penguins
A conclave of Emperor penguins. Date: 1907 - 1909

Return of the Penguins
The penguins return in the spring. Date: 1907 - 1909

Hauling Stores
Ponies hauling stores to Shackletons hut. Date: circa 1907

PARSELENE
Parselene and lunar rainbow Date: 1907 - 1909

Shackleton Motor Car
Day with the motor car on the sea ice : ordinary wheels with rubber tyres were found to be the most satisfactory. Date: circa 1907

South Magnetic Pole
Professor David : I hereby take possession of this area now containing the Magnetic Pole for the British Empire. Dr Mackay is on his right, Douglas Mawson on his left. Date: 1909

Shackleton on Ice
Shackletons men on the Great Ice Barrier, during their Antarctic expedition. circa 1907

Iceberg near Cape Spear, Newfoundland and Labrador - the most easterly point of North America (closest point to Europe). Date: circa 1920s

Inuit children at a Catholic Mission - Newfoundland
Inuit children at a Catholic Eskimo Mission - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1910s

British Columbia Indian Shaman in full fur attire, standing with totemic wooden carved objects outside his canvas abode. Date: circa 1910s

Commander Peary and Captain Bartlett
Robert Edwin Peary (1856 1920), explorer and adventurer, who claimed on April 6th 1909 to have been the first man to reach the North Pole, although this claim is widely doubted today

Catholic Inuit family - Newfoundland
An Inuit (Eskimo) family who converted to Catholicism - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1910s

Polar Bear Shaking
A wet Polar Bear shakes the water from its fur - who needs towels? Date: 1960s

Has Captain Scott reached the Pole?
Page from The Sphere magazine speculating on whether Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his polar exploration team had reached the South Pole in December 1911, as scheduled

Captain Wilkins, photographer, near Roussoy, France, WW1
Captain George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958), Australian official war photographer, setting up his camera and tripod on top of a tank near Roussoy, northern France

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - pulling sledge over ice
A view showing how sledges were rushed from one ice floe to another, with a sled pulling team waiting for two floes to meet and quickly dashing across

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - seals and ice
Seals basking on newly formed pancake ice off Cape Evans, captured by photographer Herbert Ponting during the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition to the South Pole, 1910 - 1912. Date: 1913

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - glacial cave
Awe-inspiring curved cavern within an iceberg, found by the Scott polar expedition shortly after the arrival of the Terra Nova at Antarctica

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - Earth Shadow
An earth shadow from Mount Erebus on Antarctica, cast on the clouds and seen during the ill-fated Scott polar expedition of 1910 - 1912

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