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There are 49 cards available:
Adelie penguins nesting in a box
Adelie penguins nesting in a box from Shackleton's 1907-1909 British Antarctic Expedition, Cape Royds, Antarctica. Photograph by Dr Bernard Stonehouse.
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| Greetings Card and envelope | £0.55 |
Adelie Penguins on Ice Floe
Adelie Penguins on Ice Floe. Antarctic Sound, February 1998. Photograph by Shirley Sawtell, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.
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The Arctic Council, Engraving
The Arctic Council, 1851. Painted by Stephen Pearce, Esq.
Key plate to the engraving of the historical picture of "The Arctic Council" inside.
- Type: Greetings Card and envelope
- Black & white
- Size: 17cm (width) x 11cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.55
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Captain Scott's Expedition at the South Pole
Captain Scott's Expedition at the South Pole, photographed on 18 January 1912.
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- Black & white
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Carving, Man and Kayak, soapstone
Artist: Josie Pisuktie (1901 - d. unknown). Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay), Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, 1961. Photographer: Don Manning (SPRI ref Y: 2005/7/21 a-b).
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- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Carving, Walrus, soapstone
Artist Joe Emiqutaliaq (born 1918) or Simeonie Uppik (1928-d. unknown). Sanikiluaq (Belcher Islands), Nunavut, Canada, before 1971. Photographer: Don Manning (SPRI ref Y:71/10).
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
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Debenham
Erecting a pyramid tent, "Terra Nova" expedition, 1910-13.
Painting by Frank Debenham.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 11cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Discovery watercolour
"Discovery" from a watercolour by E.A.Wilson.
- Type: Postcard
- Black & white
- Size: 14cm (width) x 9cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Edward Wilson Notelets, Aurora Australis
Aurora Australis water colour, painted by Dr E A Wilson, during the British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04.
- Type: Notelet with envelope
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- Size: 10cm (width) x 14cm (height)
- Number per pack: 4
- Message: Blank
Price: £2.75
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Edward Wilson Notelets. Set 1
1.Sea Leopard chasing Emperor Penguins, for South Polar Times, May 1902
2.Hut Point from the top of Observation Hill, April 1 1911 5.30 pm.
- Type: Notelet with envelope
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- Size: 10cm (width) x 14cm (height)
- Number per pack: 8
- Message: Blank
Price: £4.99
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Edward Wilson Notelets. Set 2
1.Looking north at noon from South Bay Screen, June 3 1911
2.Sledge hauling on Ski, a grey day on the Great Ice Barrier, [1903].
- Type: Notelet with envelope
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- Size: 10cm (width) x 14cm (height)
- Number per pack: 8
- Message: Blank
Price: £4.99
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Emperor Penguins
Newly-discovered colony of emperor penguins at the foot of the Dawson-Lambton Glacier, Weddell Sea coast, Antarctica. Photograph by Dr Bernard Stonehouse, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.
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- Message: Blank
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"Endurance" caught in the ice
"Endurance" caught in the ice of the Weddell Sea, mid-winter 1915. Photograph by Frank Hurley.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 21cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.55
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Eroded Tabular Iceberg
Eroded Tabular Iceberg, Erebus and Terror Gulf, Antarctica, January 1999. Photograph by William Mills, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
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- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Friends' Christmas Card 2012
Iceberg: Antarctic Peninsula off the coast of Vernadsky
Bell Helicopter N407PF piloted by Jennifer Murray and Colin Bodill
Photo: Bruce Laurin.
- Type: Christmas Card with envelope
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- Size: 21cm (width) x 15cm (height)
- Number per pack: 10
- Message: Season's Greetings
Price: £9.00
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Herbert Ponting
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Captain Oates and some ponies aboard ship, 1910-13. Photographer: Herbert Ponting. Individually wrapped. | 21cm (width) x 15cm (height) |
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Grotto in an ice berg, Terra Nova in the distance, 1911. Photographer: Herbert Ponting. Individually wrapped. | 15cm (width) x 21cm (height) |
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Beautiful broken ice, reflections and Terra Nova, 1911. Photographer: Herbert Ponting. Individually wrapped. | 21cm (width) x 15cm (height) |
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The Terra Nova and a berg at ice-foot, 1911. Photographer: Herbert Ponting. Individually wrapped. | 15cm (width) x 21cm (height) |
HMS "Enterprise" and HMS "Investigator" drifting in Barrow Strait. Watercolour
HMS "Enterprise" and HMS "Investigator" drifting in Barrow Strait, Canadian Arctic archipelago, 1848. Watercolour by Edward Adams, Assistant Surgeon RN. From the Scott Polar Research Institute Archives.
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- Size: 24cm (width) x 11cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Husky Dog Team
Ken McRury's husky dog team taking a well deserved rest in Burton Bay, off Frobisher Bay, NWT, Canada. Photograph by Shirley Sawtell, April 1997.
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- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Hut Point, Ross Island. Watercolour by E. Wilson
Hut Point, Ross Island.
The hut was built during the first Antarctic expedition of Robert Falcon Scott, 1901-04. Watercolour by Edward Wilson, 7 April 1911.
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- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
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Inquisitive Adelie Penguins
Inquisitive Adelie Penguins looking out over Rothera station, Adelaide Island. Photographed by Pete Bucktrout.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Inuit Art: Birds Book of Postcards
Cape Dorset - called Kinngait in the Inuit language, Inuktitut, for the area's high, rolling hills, is an Arctic Territiory of Nunavut. The community is renowned for the wonderful Inuit art that flows from its cooperatively owned printmaking studios making a strong statement of Inuit cultural traditions. Contains 30 oversized colour postcards.
- Type: Postcard
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- Size: 12cm (width) x 16cm (height)
- Number per pack: 30
- Message: Blank
Price: £5.99
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Kerguelen Fur Seal
Kerguelen Fur Seal, Arctocephalus Tropicalis Gazella. Photograph by R.M.Laws.
- Type: Postcard
- Black & white
- Size: 10cm (width) x 15cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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King Penguins
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King Penguins, Gold harbour, South Georgia. Photograph by Dr Bernard Stonehouse, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. | Postcard | £0.45 |
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King penguins standing in tussock grass, South Georgia. Photograph by Pamela Davis. | Postcard | £0.45 |
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King Penguins, Gold harbour, South Georgia. Photograph by Dr Bernard Stonehouse, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. | Greetings Card and envelope | £0.55 |
King penguins at Volunteer Point
King penguins at Volunteer Point, Falkland Islands.
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- Number per pack: 1
- Message: blank
Price: £0.60
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A Little Advice Blank Greeting Card
A Tree-Free product made entirely from recycled products. Blank card with envelope.
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Price: £2.35
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Painting by D. F. Markham
Painting by D. F. Markham illustrating an account by his son Clement, midshipman on an Arctic expedition of 1850-51.
- Type: Greetings Card and envelope
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Price: £0.55
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Penguins
Set of five postcards.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 5
- Message: Blank
Price: £1.50
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Polar Bear
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Polar Bear, East Greenland Sea. Photograph by Stuart Moore. |
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Polar Bear, Central Arctic Ocean North of Alaska (84.25 Degrees North), August 1994. Photograph taken from the Bridge of the U.S. Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker "Polar Sea" by Captain L.W. Brigham. |
Polar Bear and Two Cubs
Polar Bear and Two Cubs in a driving snow, Cape Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Photograph by Bryan Alexander.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Polar Paintings
Set of five postcards.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 5
- Message: Blank
Price: £1.50
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The Quest for the South Pole
Drawn from the collections of the Royal Geographical Society, London, the thirty historical photographs in this book of postcards document the heroic expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton,as each struggled to make history at the bottom of the world.
- Size: 17cm (width) x 12cm (height)
- Number per pack: 30
- Message: Blank
Price: £6.99
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Reindeer
Reindeer, when being introduced into Alaska. From the Scott Polar Research Institute Picture Library's Raymond Priestley collection.
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| Blank | Postcard | £0.45 |
| Season's Greetings | Christmas Card with envelope | £0.55 |
Representation of the Antarctic
Representation of the Antarctic.
Interior of the Museum Antarctic Dome, Scott Polar Research Institute. Artwork by Macdonald Gill, 1934.
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| Season's Greetings | Christmas Card with envelope |
| Blank | Greetings Card and envelope |
Representation of the Arctic
Representation of the Arctic.
Interior of the Museum Arctic Dome, Scott Polar Research Institute. Artwork by Macdonald Gill, 1934.
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- Number per pack: 1
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| Season's Greetings | Christmas Card with envelope |
| Blank | Greetings Card and envelope |
Scott's "Discovery" Expedition, 1901-04
Scott's "Discovery" Expedition, 1901-04. Sepia photograph.
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- Black & white
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Scott's "Terra Nova" Expedition, 1910-13
Scott's "Terra Nova" Expedition, 1910-13. Sepia photograph.
- Type: Postcard
- Black & white
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Shackleton's "Nimrod" Expedition, 1907-09
Shackleton's "Nimrod" Expedition, 1907-09. Sepia photograph.
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- Black & white
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Sir Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), Portrait. Photograph by Frank Hurley, from SPRI collection.
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- Black & white
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Small Iceberg
Small iceberg in Hornsund, southern Spitsbergen. Photograph by J. A. Dowdeswell.
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- Number per pack: 1
Price: £0.60
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| In stock | Season's Greetings | Christmas Card with envelope |
| We regret this item is temporarily out of stock | Blank | Greetings Card and envelope |
Snow Bunting. Painting
Snow Bunting. From an original painting by Brenda Carter.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Snow Cottages. Watercolour by Capt. Sir John Ross
North Hendon: snow cottages of the Boothians. Watercolour by Capt. Sir John Ross RN, from his second Arctic expedition, 1829-33. From the archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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SPRI Christmas Card 2011
The 2011 SPRI Christmas Card depicts the Midwinter Day Dinner at Winter quarters Hut on June 22nd 1911, British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13. Leader - Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Photographer - Herbert Ponting.
Cards cost £0.75 each or can be purchased by mail order in packs of 10 at the following rates, which include 1st class postage:
No UK(£) Eur(£) ROW(£)
10 9.00 10.50 14.00
20 17.00 20.50 25.00
30 25.50 29.50 36.50
40 34.00 39.00 46.00
50 42.50 47.50 55.50.
- Type: Christmas Card with envelope
- Size: 21cm (width) x 15cm (height)
- Number per pack: 10
- Message: Season's Greetings
Price: £9.00
Availability: In stock
SPRI Christmas Card 2012
HMS Alert and HMS Discovery, the British Arctic Expedition, 1875-76, Watercolour by W F Mitchell
Cards cost £0.75 each purchased at the shop or can be purchased by mail order in packs of 10 at the following rates, which include 1st class postage:
No UK(£) Eur(£) ROW(£)
10 9.00 10.50 14.00
20 17.00 20.50 25.00
30 25.50 29.50 36.50
40 34.00 39.00 46.00
50 42.50 47.50 55.50.
- Type: Christmas Card with envelope
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- Size: 21cm (width) x 15cm (height)
- Number per pack: 10
- Message: Season's Greetings
Price: £9.00
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Spring Crossing of Kongsvegen, Spitsbergen
Spring Crossing of Kongsvegen, Spitsbergen. Photograph by David Rootes.
- Type: Postcard
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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View of the Scott Polar Research Institute
North West View of the 1934 Building,
Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1ER.
- Type: Postcard
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- Size: 14cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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View of the Shackleton Memorial Library, Scott Polar Research Institute
Shackleton Memorial Library,
Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1ER.
RIBA Regional Award for Architecture 1999. John Miller and Partners Architects.
- Type: Postcard
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- Size: 10cm (width) x 15cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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A water-eroded iceberg and brash ice, Watkins Fjord, East Greenland
Photographer: J A Dowdeswell (SPRI ref JAD2550).
- Type: Postcard
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: £0.45
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Wildlife
Set of five postcards.
- Type: Postcard
- Colour
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 5
- Message: Blank
Price: £1.50
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With Scott to the Pole postcard set
With Scott to the Pole postcard set.
- Type: Postcard
- Black & white
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 16
- Message: Blank
Price: £7.99
Availability: In stock