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[The Ascent of Mont Blanc], 1861. Creator: Auguste-Rosalie Bisson
[The Ascent of Mont Blanc], 1861

Victoria Falls: The Leaping Water, pub. 1864. Creator: Thomas Baines (1820-75)
Victoria Falls: The Leaping Water, from Explorations in South West Africa, pub. 1864 (colour lithograph). made in collaboration with James Chapman (1831-1872)

Amundsens Tent at the South Pole, January 1912, (1913). Artist: Henry Bowers
Amundsens Tent at the South Pole, January 1912, (1913). Expedition leader Captain Robert F Scott (1868-1912), Dr Edward Wilson (1872-1912) and Petty Officer Edgar Evans (1876-1912)

A. B. Cheetham, (The boatswain of the Terra Nova), c1910–1913, (1913)
A.B. Cheetham, (The boatswain of the Terra Nova), c1910– 1913, (1913). Alfred Cheetham (1866-1918) was a member of several Antarctic expeditions

Captain James Cook taking possession of New South Wales in the name of the British Crown, 1770. James Cook (1728-1779), English explorer, navigator and hydrographer, made three voyages of discovery

The Second Western Party The Day They Were Picked Up By The Ship, 1912, (1913)
The Second Western Party The Day They Were Picked Up By The Ship: Taylor, Debenham, Gran and Forde, 1913. The return of the Western Geological Party: geologists Frank Debenham and T.Griffith-Taylor

Captain Scott on Ski, c1910–1913, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Captain Scott on Ski, c1910– 1913, (1913). The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) left London on 1 June 1910 bound for the South Pole

A Group of the Shore Party at the Winter Quarters, c1908, (1909)
A Group of the Shore Party at the Winter Quarters. [Standing (from left): Joyce, Day, Wild, Adams, Brocklehurst, Shackleton, Marshall, David, Armitage, Marston

Captain L. E. G. Oates by the Stable Door, 30 August 1911, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Captain L. E. G. Oates by the Stable Door, 30 August 1911, (1913). Lawrence Titus Oates (1880-1912) suffering from gangrene and frostbite, walked from his tent into a blizzard

The Officers of the Terra Nova, 1912 Voyage, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
The Officers of the Terra Nova, 1912 Voyage; Left to right - Mr. Dennistoun, Bo sun Cheetham, Lt. Rennick, Paymaster Drake, Engineer Williams, Lt. Pennell, Lt. Bruce, Biologist Lillie, (1913)

Camp Under The Wild Range, 20 December 1911, (1913). Artist: Robert Falcon Scott
Camp Under The Wild Range, 20 December 1911, (1913). Three pyramid tents camped near Beardmore Glacier and Mount Wild: two figures can be seen sketching on the sledge

Bowers, Wilson, and Cherry-Garrard About To Leave For Cafe Crozier, 27 June 1911, (1913). Lieutenant Henry Birdie Bowers (1883-1912)

Return of the Penguins, c1908, (1909). Artist: George Marston
Return of the Penguins, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

The First Western Party in a Natural Ice-Tunnel, c1911, (1913). Artist: T Griffith Taylor
The First Western Party in a Natural Ice-Tunnel Amid The Pinnacles of the Koettlitz Glacier (Edgar Evans standing), c1911, (1913)

Ponting Cinematographs The Bow of the Terra Nova, c1910–1913, (1913)
Ponting Cinematographs The Bow of the Terra Nova Breaking Through the Ice-Floes, c1910– 1913, (1913). Camera artist Herbert G Ponting (1870-1935) lies on planks to film the ship

Furling Sail in the Pack, c1910–1913, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
Furling Sail in the Pack, c1910– 1913, (1913). Sailors on the Terra Nova. The final expedition of British Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

At The South Pole, (Bowers pulls the string), January 1912, (1913). Artist: Henry Bowers
At The South Pole, (Bowers pulls the string), January 1912, (1913). Left to right: Captain Lawrence Oates, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Petty Officer Edgar Evans

Members of the Polar Party Having A Meal in Camp, c1911, (1913)
Members of the Polar Party Having A Meal in Camp (Left to right - P.O. Evans, Bowers, Wilson, Scott. Enlarged from a cinematograph film), c1911, (1913)

Edward A. Wilson, B. A. M. B. c1910s, (1913). Artist: Emery Walker
Edward A. Wilson, B.A. M.B. c1910s, (1913). Doctor, painter and naturalist Edward Wilson (1872-1912) died with Scott on the way back from the Pole

The Fram in the Bay of Whales, Antarctica, 1911-1912. Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving at the Pole on 14th December 1911

Map of Willem Barentsz Third Voyage, 1598. Artist: Claesz, Cornelis (ca. 1551-1609)
Map of Willem Barentsz Third Voyage, 1598. Private Collection

Admiral Teddy Evans, (1881-1957), British naval officer and Antarctic explorer, 1916
Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1881-1957), known as Teddy Evans, was a British naval officer and Antarctic explorer, 1916

Inscription on the monument to David Livingstone, Zambia, Africa, late 19th or early 20th century. Scottish missionary and explorer Livingstone (1813-1873)

Interior of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, 1924-1926. Artist: Thomas Kent
Interior of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, 1924-1926. The building of St Magnus Cathedral began in 1137, with additions made over the following three centuries

Ernest Shackleton, British explorer, c1909. Portrait of Shackleton (1874-1922) from his book The Heart of the Antarctic, an account of his expedition of 1908-1909 on board the Nimrod

Prince Ruspoli, 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Prince Ruspoli, 1919. Shows Prince Eugenio Ruspoli, Secretary of the Italian Embassy, probably taken aboard the Mauretania at the Cunard pier in New York on November 25, 1919.

Group of Shoria Man and Members of a Land-Management Expedition, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Group of Shoria Man and Members of a Land-Management Expedition, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Lifting a Boat to the Mrasskii Rapid, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Lifting a Boat to the Mrasskii Rapid, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Boat on the Rocks Near the Mrassu Rapids, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Boat on the Rocks Near the Mrassu Rapids, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

A Land-Management Expedition Boat Passing a Mrassu River Rapids, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
A Land-Management Expedition Boat Passing a Mrassu River Rapids, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

A Land-Management Expedition Boat Passing a Mrassu River Rapids, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
A Land-Management Expedition Boat Passing a Mrassu River Rapids, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

The Mrassu River, Above the Rapids Near the Saga Ulus, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
The Mrassu River, Above the Rapids Near the Saga Ulus, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Members of the Expedition at Dinner on the Shore of the Mrassu River Near the Saga Ulus, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Members of the Expedition at Dinner on the Shore of the Mrassu River Near the Saga Ulus, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in

The Mrassu River Shore Between Srednii Chilei and Ust'-Anzas Uluses, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
The Mrassu River Shore Between Srednii Chilei and Ust'-Anzas Uluses, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai

The Mrassu River Near a Rapid, Near the Chileiskie Rocks, Between Srednii Chilei..., 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
The Mrassu River Near a Rapid, Near the Chileiskie Rocks, Between Srednii Chilei and Ust'-Anzas Uluses, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to

Rocks on the Shore of the Mrassu River Between Srednii Chilei and Ust'-Anzas Uluses, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Rocks on the Shore of the Mrassu River Between Srednii Chilei and Ust'-Anzas Uluses, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in

Georgii Iakovlevich Sedov, 1912. Creator: Nikolay Vasilyevich Pinegin
Georgii Iakovlevich Sedov, 1912. From a collection consisting of an album and individual photographs from the family archive of geologist Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov (1884-1938)

Near the Chileiskie Rocks, on the shore of the Mrassu River, Between Srednii Chilei..., 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Near the Chileiskie Rocks, on the shore of the Mrassu River, Between Srednii Chilei and Ust'-Anzas Uluses, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to

Boats on the Mrassu River, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Boats on the Mrassu River, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Ways of traveling on the roads of Mountain Shoria, Cradle, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Ways of traveling on the roads of Mountain Shoria, Cradle, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Moving the Expedition Equipment on the Drag Harrow, Near the Ust'-Anzas Ulus, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Moving the Expedition Equipment on the Drag Harrow, Near the Ust'-Anzas Ulus, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in

Land-Management Expedition Boats by the Shore of the Tom' River Between Kuznetsk and the..., 1913
Land-Management Expedition Boats by the Shore of the Tom' River Between Kuznetsk and the Mouth of the Mrassu River, Below Myski Ulus, 1913

Members of the Land-Management Expedition on the Boats on the Tom' River, Between..., 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Members of the Land-Management Expedition on the Boats on the Tom' River, Between Kuznetsk and the Ulus Balbyn', 1913

Members of the Land-Management Expedition on the Boats on the Tom' River, Between Kuznetsk..., 1913
Members of the Land-Management Expedition on the Boats on the Tom' River, Between Kuznetsk and the Ulus Balbyn' Near their Tent Camp, 1913

Topographer and Laborers Near the Ust'-Kabyrza Ulus, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Topographer and Laborers Near the Ust'-Kabyrza Ulus, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Caravan with Bread for the Expedition, Near the Ust'-Kabyrza Ulus, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Caravan with Bread for the Expedition, Near the Ust'-Kabyrza Ulus, 1913.From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

A Land-Management Expedition Boat by the Shore of the Mrassu River, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
A Land-Management Expedition Boat by the Shore of the Mrassu River, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Topographers by the Boats on the Mrassu River Shore, Near the Ust'-Kabyrza Ulus, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Topographers by the Boats on the Mrassu River Shore, Near the Ust'-Kabyrza Ulus, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in

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