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There are 33 items in this collection.

	Flag Record: N: 195 A pennant from the Terra Nova, used on the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova).
	Flag Record: N: 200 A Union Jack flag, rolled on bamboo, flown at Hut Point as a signal to Cape Evans during the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova).
	Sledging flag Record: N: 272 A sledging flag used by Lieutenant Charles Royds during the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 (Discovery).
	Sledging flag Record: N: 273 A sledging flag used by Lieut. Henry Bowers on the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova). Bowers made this flag himself, as the official one made for him missed the ship.
	Sledging flag Record: N: 274 A sledging flag used by Dr Edward Adrian Wilson on the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 (Discovery). It was made by Wilson's wife, Oriana.
	Sledging flag Record: N: 275 A sledging flag used by Dr Edward Adrian Wilson on the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova). It was made by Wilson's wife, Oriana.
	Flag Record: N: 352 Union Jack which flew over Frederick Jackson's hut on the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition in Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa, 1894-97.
	Flag Record: N: 353a One of two bunting silk Union Jacks used by Frederick Jackson as sledging flags during his Jackson-Harmsworth expedition to Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa, 1894-97.
	Flag Record: N: 353b One of two bunting silk, Union Jacks used by Frederick Jackson as sledging flags during his Jackson-Harmsworth expedition to Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa, 1894-97.
	Flag Record: N: 353c-f Bunting Union Jacks, made of silk, used by Frederick Jackson as sledging flags during his expedition to Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa, 1894-97
	Flag Record: N: 1038 A black flag from the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1910-12 (Fram) found near the South Pole and brought back by Dr Edward Adrian Wilson on the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova).
	Flag Record: N: 1052 A black flag used to mark depots during the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova).
	Pennant Record: Y: 50/1 A light blue pennant from H.M.A.L.S.T. 3051, used on the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition 1947-48. It was presented by W. Arthur Scholes, a member of the Heard Island Party 1947-48.
	Flag Record: Y: 58/7 Union Jack which was hoisted above the sledge-boat Endeavour by Sir William Edward Parry at 82 degrees 45 N, when he achieved his farthest north record on 25 July 1827, which remained for 49 years the highest latitude attained.
	Flag Record: Y: 66/4 Silk Union Jack which belonged to Sir John Ross, Arctic explorer (1777-1856).
	Sledging flag Record: Y: 71/2 A sledging flag belonging to Brian Birley Roberts and used on the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-37 (Penola).
	Flag Record: Y: 78/2 A navy blue ensign from the Aurora, used during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14 (Aurora).
	Flag Record: Y: 80/9 Triangular souvenir flag of the Soviet expedition to the North Pole on skis, 1979. Signed on the back by all seven members of the expedition.
	Flag Record: Y: 83/7/6 A piece of the flag hoisted by Captain Robert Falcon Scott at the South Pole in 1912 during the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova). In one of his last letters to his wife, Scott requested that a small piece of the flag be sent to King George and Queen Alexandra.
	Flag Record: Y: 85/2a-b A very tattered 6ft x 3ft Union Jack flag (a) in a green bag (b). The flag was flown at Shackleton station during the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58, during the period 29 December 1956 to 29 May 1957.
	Flag Record: Y: 91/1/7/6/1-2 Two small Union Jack flags, (1) is attached to a pole. They belonged to Geoff Somers and used on the International Trans-Antarctica Expedition 1989-90.
	Pennant Record: Y: 97/1/4 A pennant flown aboard HMS Erebus during the British Naval Expedition 1839-43 (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror) to the Antarctic commanded by James Clark Ross.
	Flag Record: Y: 2002/11/8 Flag with Royal Air Force badge and motto Per ardua ad astra ('Through adversity to the stars') which belonged to Edward Shackleton.
	Sledging flag Record: Y: 2002/2/4 A red and gold sledging flag with goldwork embroidery. Used by Ernest Shackleton on the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 (Nimrod).
	Flag Record: Y: 2003/3/8 A very worn 6ft x 4ft Union Jack flag flown at the Halley Bay base of the Royal Society International Geophysical Year Expeditions 1955-59 from 26 May to 1 August 1958. During this period there were four gales, each of which lasted one or two days: one was a whole gale, two were strong gales, and one a moderate gale. The flag was made by Porter Brothers Ltd. of Liverpool and is dated 1956.
	Flag Record: Y: 2005/5 A framed union jack flag presented to Ernest Shackleton by Queen Alexandra, and said to have been the one flown at the Farthest South (88°23' S 182°00' E) on 9 January 1909 during the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 (Nimrod).
	Flag Record: Y: 2006/26/2 A Union Jack flag, one of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's depot flags during the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 (Discovery) and found on the Great Ice Barrier in 1905.
	Pennant Record: Y: 2011/55/10 A yellow pennant marked Hope Bay '48 and '49. Associated with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) at Hope Bay, and collected by Brian Jefford, who was surveyor with FIDS at Hope Bay in 1948 and Admiralty Bay in 1949.
	Flag Record: Y: 2011/55/14 An Argentine flag collected in 1948 by Brian Jefford, surveyor with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) at Hope Bay in 1948 and Admiralty Bay in 1949.
	Flag Record: Y: 2011/59 A Union Jack flag made for the 1984-1987 'In the Footsteps of Scott' expedition, led by Robert Swan, and raised at 90 degrees south.
	Sledging flag Record: Y: 2013/22 A modern replica of Captain Lawrence Oates' sledging pennant for the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova), which was never made.
	Flag Record: Y: 2014/9/13 A Union Jack flag used by John Cheal. Cheal was surveyor with the Falkland Island Dependencies Survey (FIDS) 1949-51 at Signy Island and base leader 1950-51, and returned to the Antarctic for four months 1956-57.
	Flag Record: Y: 2021/3 Square, blue and white silk sledging flag with an embroidered coat of arms that belonged to expedition surgeon Eric S. Marshall (1879-1963), one of four men to reach the Furthest South on 9 January 1908 along with Jameson Adams, Ernest Shackleton and Frank Wild during the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 (Nimrod).