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Picture library catalogue: British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09

 

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The sea ice breaking up in Back door Bay forces the Nimrod to retreat to the open sea for a short time

Record: P98/9/33

View across open pack ice to the ship Nimrod

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Nimrod with foresail and upper top sail set running into heavy pack

Record: P98/9/34

View across heavily hummocked ice to the ship Nimrod, with sails unfurled. Men on the bowsprit and yard arm.

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An ice face at the Turk's Head, Ross Island

Record: P98/9/35

View across ice and snow to a cave in the ice.

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Two stranded bergs at Backdoor Bay Cape Royds

Record: P98/9/36

View across sea to ice bergs.

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A typical barrier face showing well marked stratification lines and conchoidal fracture

Record: P98/9/37

View across sea to wall of ice showing glaciological features.

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Another Barrier photograph showing defirmation in the stratification lines

Record: P98/9/38

View across sea to wall of ice showing glaciological features.

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A typical barrier face showing well marked stratification lines and conchoidal fracture

Record: P98/9/39

View across sea to wall of ice showing glaciological features.

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A very prettily undercut portion of the ice foot at the Penguin Rookery, Cape Royds

Record: P98/9/40

A man stands on ice foot looking down at pancake ice below.

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Cave in stranded berg in Backdoor Bay showing well developed icicles and also platy crystals on the floor of the cave

Record: P98/9/41

Ice cave with icicles, illuminated by two hurricane lamps.

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The heavy pack which prevented the Nimrod from reaching King Edward VIIth Land. Feb 1908

Record: P98/9/42

View over sea to pack ice and iceberg.

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The undercut ice foot at Cape Royds during summer

Record: P98/9/43

View of the edge of the icefoot as it reaches the sea. Ice floating in the sea.

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A berg very prettily corroded and tilted by the sea denudation

Record: P98/9/44

Weathered iceberg.

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A killer whale sounding

Record: P98/9/45

View of the Dorsal fin of a whale in the sea. Pack ice beyond.

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Another portion of the barrier face with overhanging edge

Record: P98/9/46

An ice front.

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A penguin

Record: P98/9/47

An Adelie penguin standing on the ice beside a piece of rope.

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A 150 feet cliff which formed the "Chinese Wall" or living extension of the Cape Barne glacier. Five miles south of Winter Quarters

Record: P98/9/48

View over snow and ice to a wall of ice, bare rock in the background.

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Penguins in the nesting season sitting on their young

Record: P98/9/49

An Adelie penguin sitting on its nest with two penguin chicks.

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Adelie penguins

Record: P98/9/50

A group of adult and young Adelie penguins.

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Emperor penguins and motor car

Record: P98/9/51

A group of Emperor penguins stand on the ice looking at two men standing beside the motor car.

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An angry mother seal with cub

Record: P98/9/52

A seal and her cub on the ice.

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Two Adelie penguins

Record: P98/9/53

Two Adelie penguins standing on rock.

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A seal being hunted

Record: P98/9/54

A seal on the ice with men and ropes behind.

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Crabeater seals quarrelling

Record: P98/9/55

Two crabeater seals with mouths open on the ice close to the sea.

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Adelie penguins

Record: P98/9/56

Two Adelie penguins on their nest.

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At the Magnetic Pole

Record: P98/9/57

Three men standing on the ice with a Union Jack planted in the snow. Left to right: Mackay, David and Mawson.

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The Southern Party encamped at the foot of the Cloudmaker a mountain about 84° S. lat.

Record: P98/9/58

Two tents pitched on the ice with other equipment in a pile to the right of the tents. A man bends down beside one of the tents. Mountain behind.

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Preparing to lay a depot with the motor

Record: P98/9/59

A group of men on the ice with two laden sledges and the motor car.

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An Antarctic Skua gull on its nest

Record: P98/9/60

A Skua gull standing on a rock.

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The old Discovery depot at the Minna Bluff

Record: P98/9/61

The heads of three men can be seen looking out of a pit in the snow. A depot flag on a pole is planted in the snow behind them.

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David, Mackay and Mawson taking possession of South Victoria Land at Cape Bernacchi in the name of the British Empire and his Magesty King Edward VII

Record: P98/9/62

Two men stand on a snow covered rocky hillside with a flag planted in the snow.

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Southern Party, after their return from the south

Record: P98/9/63

Four men stand on the deck of a ship. Left to right: Wild, Shackleton, Marshall, Adams

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The party who laid the Bluff depot for the Southern Party and were the only party to use a dog team

Record: P98/9/64

Three men beside a fully laden sledge and dog team. Left to right: Marston, Joyce, Day

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The start of the Southern Journey, leaving Cape Royds with the ponies

Record: P98/9/65

Four men with four ponies on the ice. Left to right: Sisi and Marshall, back - Adams and Juan, front - Shackleton and Chinaman, Wild and Socks

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Possum, Possum junior and Gwen, Cape Royds

Record: P98/9/66

Three dogs outside the hut. One of the dogs is sitting in a barrel(?)

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Priestley and dogs under snow cornice at Cape Royds, 1908

Record: P98/9/67

Three dogs and a man sitting on the snow.

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Our summer camp in the Ferrar Glacier

Record: P98/9/68

Camp scene with a tent pitched on the ice and a laden sledge in the foreground. Mountains behind

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Bernard Day on Nimrod

Record: P98/9/69

Bernard Day sitting on the deck of the ship Nimrod holding a pipe and with a dog on either side.

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Dunlop, Priestley, Armytage, Mawson and Wild

Record: P98/9/70

Five men lounge on the deck of the ship Nimrod. A sixth men sits on a barrel above them, but is not named. Left to right: Dunlop, Priestley, Armytage. Front: Mawson, Wild (lying down).

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R.E. Priestley and typewriter. Cape Adare 1911

Record: P98/9/71

Raymond Priestley sits at a table reading a book with a typewriter in front of him. Various objects including a fan and a barometer are on the wooden wall behind him.

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Midwinter Day at Cape Adare

Record: P98/9/72

Group of men seated around a table. Sledge flags are hanging from the ceiling. Left to right: Browning, Campbell, Dickason, Levick, Priestley

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Nimrod in harbour

Record: P98/9/1a

View across sea of the ship Nimrod in harbour. Signed by five members of the expedition: Ernest Joyce, Frank Wild, George Marston, Raymond Priestley, Bernard Day

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James Murray

Record: P68/73/100

Head and shoulders portrait of James Murray beside an open door.

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The Lion. A fumarole on the old crator of Erebus with the Erebus party in the foreground. March 1908

Record: P68/73/101

View of four men roped together standing on snow with a large formation of snow and ice behind them.

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Preparing for the Summer Erebus trip

Record: P68/73/102

Group of five men wearing harnesses standing on the snow and talking. Sledge to the left.

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Raymond Priestley after two months without a wash or shave and in summer sledging costume. Taken after the return of the Western Party. The dog is young Possum. Feb 1909.

Record: P68/73/103

Raymond Priestley looking dishevelled with a dog.

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A sledge-party from the ship

Record: P68/73/104

Four men harnessed to a sledge that is laden with two barrels of beer.

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Camped at the foot of the main cone of Erebus. March 1908

Record: P68/73/105

Five men beside two tents pitched on the ice. Various items of equipment on the ground around them.

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The Erebus party packing across the old crater 11000 ft above sea-level. March 1908

Record: P68/73/106

Group of men walking across the snow carrying large packs.

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The picking up of the Western Party by the Nimrod. 25 January 1909

Record: P68/73/107

Three men on the ice, one man holds a rope a second man bends down towards another rope. Left to right: Armytage, Priestley, Brocklehurst.

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On the Nimrod. Dunlop, Priestley, Michell. February 1909

Record: P68/73/108

Three men relaxing on the deck of a ship. Left to right: Dunlop, Priestley, Michell.

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A detachment of the Nimrod's crew out from the walk

Record: P68/73/109

Five men standing in a row on the ice. Three of the men are holding long sticks.

The supporting party preparing a mast to assist them in the journey from Hut Point

Record: P68/73/110

A laden sledge with mast. Three men to left, one of the men is bending over and holds the rope harness.

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The return of the Southern Party

Record: P68/73/111

Four dishevelled men standing on the deck of the ship Nimrod. Left to right: Wild, Shackleton, Marshall, Adams.

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The Koonya (leaves the Nimrod) on her way back to Lyttleton

Record: P68/73/112

View from deck of a sailing ship across the sea to a steam ship.

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The Nimrod charging the ice of the Sound with her foresails set

Record: P68/73/113

View across pack ice to a ship in an open lead with sails unfurled on the foremast.

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A view of Pony Lake or Home Lake with the Nimrod in the back ground

Record: P68/73/114

View across land and sea to ship in the distance.

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A piece of unusually heavy pack-ice

Record: P68/73/115

View across sea to large piece of pack ice.

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A much crevassed berg off the Turks Head with the motor-car in the foreground

Record: P68/73/116

View across the ice to an iceberg. Just visible are the motor-car on the right and a seal on the left.

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Two icebergs stranded in Back door Bay half way between Cape Royds and Cape Barne

Record: P68/73/117

View across sea to two icebergs.

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Iceberg seen on journey south

Record: P68/73/118

View of an iceberg.

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A curious ice-formation named "Foot Stalactites"

Record: P68/73/119

Foot Stalactites hanging down from an ice cave. They are lit by the light of two hurricane lamps.

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A rather fine piece of ice foot. The ice foot is formed of shore snowdrifts coated with frozen spray

Record: P68/73/120

View across sea ice to a large formation of ice.

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A prettily corroded, and tilted berg with penguins on top

Record: P68/73/121

View across sea ice to an iceberg with Adelie penguins on top.

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Snowberg very much corroded by the sea

Record: P68/73/122

View of a very worn piece of ice in the sea.

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Icebergs stranded on MacMurdo Sound

Record: P68/73/123

View across sea to two icebergs.

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Snow-berg showing stratification. A Barrier berg

Record: P68/73/124

View across sea to an iceberg.

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A general view of the Winter Quarters at Cape Royds showing amount of debris

Record: P68/73/125

View of the hut at Cape Royds tucked into the hillside. Boxes, crates and other items of equipment strewn around outside.

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A curious ice-formation named "Foot Stalactites"

Record: P68/73/126

Foot Stalactites hanging down from an ice cave. They are lit by the light of two hurricane lamps.

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Day and the motor car on the floe

Record: P68/73/127

View across ice to a motor car. Bernard Day sits on the side of the car with boxes in front of him.

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A natural wall like dyke of highly jointed kenyte

Record: P68/73/128

A man stands on snow in front of a wall like structure of kenyte rock.

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A portion of the sea spray that buried our stores during the blizzard of Feb 19, 20 and 21 1909

Record: P68/73/129

View of frozen sea spray covering wooden boxes.

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View of Hut from NE showing cases stacked to prevent dispersal by wind

Record: P68/73/130

View of the hut with boxes piled up on one side. More boxes and other items of equipment are strewn around the ground beside the hut.

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A fresh ice lake at Cape Barne

Record: P68/73/131

View of a snow and ice covered lake with rocky hillside on all sides.

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Poking a seal to make him look ferocious

Record: P68/73/132

Three men on the ice with seals. One man pokes a seal with a long stick. Left to right: Priestley, Joyce, Murray

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Magnetic Pole sledge

Record: P68/73/133

Two men beside a laden sledge. Some items of equipment have been unpacked.

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Mount Erebus in eruption with the foothills and Back door Bay in the foreground

Record: P68/73/134

View over snow and ice to mountain in the distance. Steam erupts from the mountain.

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Three man tent net

Record: P68/73/135

Inner tent pitched on the ice.

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The Turk's Head a kenytic agglomerate 12 miles south of Winter Quarters

Record: P68/73/136

View across snow to rock formation.

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Gneiss with dioritic inclusions. Photograph taken on Magnetic Pole journey

Record: P68/73/137

View of a large rock formation.

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A microphotograph of algae, rotifers and waterbears

Record: P68/73/138

Photograph of microbes seen under a microscope.

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A photograph of a snow tabloid and cracks in sea ice

Record: P68/73/139

Photograph of ice seen under a microscope.

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Philodina gregaria. A rotifer from Stranded Moraines and Cape Royds (Coast Lake)

Record: P68/73/140

Photograph of microbes seen under a microscope.

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An Antarctic water-bear

Record: P68/73/141

Microscopic photograph of an Antarctic water bear.

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A large rotifer from Coast Lake, Cape Royds

Record: P68/73/142

Microscopic photograph of a large rotifer.

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Water bear

Record: P68/73/143

Microscopic photograph of an Antarctic water bear.

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Rotifer

Record: P68/73/144

Microscopic photograph of a Rotifer.

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R.E. Priestley Feb 1909

Record: P68/73/145

Full length portrait of Raymond Priestley with a dog.

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R.E. Priestley Feb 1909

Record: P68/73/146

Full length portrait of Raymond Priestley standing on the deck of a ship.

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Winter Quarters at Cape Royds

Record: P68/73/147

View of the hut at Cape Royds with snow on the ground. Four men, dogs and boxes around the hut.

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HMS Powerful chasing the Nimrod 1 January 1908

Record: P68/73/148

View of the bow of a ship with flags flying. Small boats at sea beside the ship and hills behind.

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Frank Wild

Record: P68/73/149

Portrait of Frank Wild standing with one arm on his hip.

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Seal breathing at seal hole

Record: P68/73/150

Head of a seal looking out of a hole in the ice.

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Skua gull at Cape Royds

Record: P68/73/151

Skua Gull

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Icicles in a cavern in a snowberg

Record: P68/73/152

Icicles hanging down from the roof of a cave. They are lit by the light of two hurricane lamps.

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Weddell Seal and young lying at Tent Island

Record: P68/73/153

Weddell seal and one pup on the snow, with the motor car behind.

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Icicles in a cavern in Stranded Berg. Reversed

Record: P68/73/154

Icicles in a cavern. Photograph upside down?

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"Putty"

Record: P68/73/155

George Marston dressed in theatrical costume.

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Northern depot sledge. October 1908

Record: P68/73/156

Sledge with box, bags and flag.

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Crabeaters in the Ross Sea Pack

Record: P68/73/157

Four Crabeater seals on the ice.

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