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Picture library catalogue: Norwegian British Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1949-52
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Crashed aircraft (C5) on shelf iceRecord: P52/13/101Expedition members stand around and on an Auster aircraft which lies, crashed, on an ice sheet. Items of wreckage lie on the ice nearby. |
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Crashed aircraft (C5) on shelf iceRecord: P52/13/102Expedition members stand around and on an Auster aircraft which lies, crashed, on an ice sheet. Items of wreckage lie on the ice nearby. |
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Crashed aircraft (C5) on shelf iceRecord: P52/13/103Expedition members stand around and on an Auster aircraft which lies, crashed, on an ice sheet. Items of wreckage lie on the ice nearby. |
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Crashed aircraft (C5) on shelf iceRecord: P52/13/104Expedition members stand around and on an Auster aircraft which lies, crashed, on an ice sheet. Items of wreckage lie on the ice nearby. |
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Les Quar in RAF winter clothing on board "Norsel"Record: P52/13/105Portrait of Quar wearing parka and heavy boots on the deck of the steam ship 'Norsel'. Two aeroplanes stowed on the roof of the deck cabin in the background. |
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Wintering party waving goodbye to "Norsel" as she left NorselbuktaRecord: P52/13/106Five expedition members stand on ice waving, a tracked vehicle and a motorcycle stand nearby. Another expedition member stands by a camera on a tripod behind and another walks down a slope in the background. |
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Wintering party waving goodbye to "Norsel" as she left NorselbuktaRecord: P52/13/107View of five expedition members standing on ice at the water's edge, a tracked vehicle and a motorcycle standing nearby. Another expedition member stands by a camera on a tripod filming behind and another stands nearby. |
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Barrier immediately east of Pynten (the eastern point at the entrance of Norselbukta)Record: P52/13/108View over sea to ice cliff. |
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Drift ice in lat. 68 degrees 20 seconds S., long. 12 degrees WestRecord: P52/13/109View over sea with ice floes. |
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Heavy pack ice. Eastern extremity of tongue which has drifted eastwards from Weddell Sea to lat. 62 degrees 52 seconds S., long. 7 degrees 40 seconds W.Record: P52/13/110View over sea with pack ice. |
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Guttorm Bardsen (left) and Thorleif Kristensen (right) flensing seals aboard "Norsel"Record: P52/13/111Bardsen and Kristensen work with knives on seal skins which are draped over a wooden board standing upright on the deck of the steam ship 'Norsel'. |
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Guttorm Bardsen (left) and Thorleif Kristensen (right) flensing seals aboard "Norsel"Record: P52/13/112Bardsen and Kristensen work with knives on seal skins which are draped over a wooden board standing upright on the deck of the steam ship 'Norsel'. Chains and tarpaulins lie on the deck, ice floes float in the sea behind. |
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Guttorm Bardsen (left) and Thorleif Kristensen (right) flensing seals aboard "Norsel"Record: P52/13/113Bardsen and Kristensen work with knives on seal skins which are draped over a wooden board standing upright on the deck of the steam ship 'Norsel'. A pipe and an old tyre lie on the deck, ice floes float in the sea behind. |
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Terje Bardsen flensing seals aboard "Norsel"Record: P52/13/114Bardsen, holding a knife in one hand, throws a seal skin(?) over the side of the steam ship 'Norsel'. Other seal skins lie in a stack on the deck. Ice floes float in the sea behind. |
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The bo'sun, Thorleif Kristensen, flensing seals aboard "Norsel"Record: P52/13/115Portrait of Kristensen leaning over a seal skin draped over a board standing upright on the deck of the steam ship 'Norsel'. |
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Terje Bardsen (left), Henry Berthensen (centre) and Guttorm Bardsen (right) aboard "Norsel"Record: P52/13/116Portrait of Bardsen, Berthensen, holding a coil of rope, and Bardsen stand by mast of the steam ship 'Norsel'. |
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Terje Bardsen (left), Henry Berthensen (centre) and Guttorm Bardsen (right) aboard "Norsel"Record: P52/13/117Portrait of Bardsen, Berthensen and Bardsen stand by mast of the steam ship 'Norsel'. |
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The crow's nest. "Norsel"Record: P52/13/118View looking up towards a man in the crow's nest at the top of the mast of the steam ship 'Norsel'. |
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Guttorm Jakobsen steering "Norsel"Record: P52/13/119Jakobsen standing at the bridge of the steam ship 'Norsel'. |
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Torgills JakobsenRecord: P52/13/120Portrait of Jakobsen crouching by a winch on the deck of the steam ship 'Norsel'. |
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Asmund NordgardRecord: P52/13/121Portrait of Nordgard cleaning machinery on the deck of the steam ship 'Norsel'. |
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Thorleif KristensenRecord: P52/13/122Portrait of Kristensen smoking a cigarette. |
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Lloyd Foster with sextantRecord: P52/13/123Portrait of Foster at the rail of the steam ship 'Norsel' looking through a sextant. |
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Reinhold von EssenRecord: P52/13/124Portrait of von Essen. |
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Father Neptune coming aboard "Norsel" at the Equator. From left to right: Terje Bardsen, Guttorm Jakobsen and Terje JohnsonRecord: P52/13/125Bardsen sprays water from a hose onto Jakobsen who sits on a capstan at the bows of the steam ship 'Norsel'. Johnson stands to one side. They all wear hats and false beards. |
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The Norwegian flying unit from Wideroe's Flyvesselskap og Polarfly A/S. From left to right: Kare Friis-Baastad (First Pilot), Sigvard Kjellberg (Photographer), Josef Jensen (Mechanic), Anders Jacobsen (Second Pilot), Walter Andreassen (Mechanic)Record: P52/13/126Friis-Baastad, Kjellberg, Jensen, Jacobsen and Andreassen sit at the bows of the steam ship 'Norsel'. |
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Iron propellor guard and rudder of one of "Norsel's" boats. Built in Tromso and considered by Guttorm Jakobsen to be the best method of ice protection.Record: P52/13/127Close-up of iron guard around the propellor of a wooden boat. |
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Iron propellor guard and rudder of one of "Norsel's" boats. Built in Tromso and considered by Guttorm Jakobsen to be the best method of ice protection.Record: P52/13/128Close-up of iron guard around the propellor of a wooden boat. |
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Reinhold von Essen (portrait in hotel window at Las Palmas)Record: P52/13/129Portrait of von Essen wearing a suit and bow tie and smoking a cigarette. |
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Seismographic operationsRecord: P62/66/1An expedition member stands on snow holding a piece of scientific equipment attached to a cable which runs back to a large shed mounted on a sledge. A tracked vehicle and a loaded sledge stand in the background. |
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Seismographic operationsRecord: P62/66/2Two expedition members dig a hole in an ice field. A piece of scientific equipment lies next to them, a cable running from it to a tracked vehicle in the background. Another tracked vehicle, a loaded sledge and a tent stand behind. |
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Seismographic operationsRecord: P62/66/3Two tracked vehicles stand on an ice sheet in front of a ridge of rock outcrops. One tows a loaded sledge, the other tows a loaded sledge and a large shed mounted on anoather sledge. |
Launching a radiosonde-rawin balloon during a stormRecord: P57/14/1Two expedition members crouch on the ground, one stands in a snow storm. A balloon hangs from a line to one side. |
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Emperor penguins - "Oscar", "Pete", "George"Record: P55/15/5/4aThree emperor penguins stand on an ice floe by broken pack ice behind. |
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(Double exposure) Skavler - Stn.228F. etc.Record: P55/15/54/5aA pair of skis and ski poles lie on a rough snow field (view over snow field also faintly exposed on image). |
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'Folded' pegmatite dyke cutting gneiss, Stn. 237F - 238FRecord: P55/15/55/8bView of rock face with hammer. |

