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Picture Library catalogue: South Georgia Survey 1951-57

 

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Here you can browse the complete listing of all the South Georgia Survey 1951-57 (SGS 1951-57) items.

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There are 4,881 items in this collection, of which 150 are shown below. Use the navigation to view more pages.

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Looking down Moranen Fjord from near King Edward Pt.

Record: P52/26/0/1

View looking down on fjord with snow-covered mountains behind.

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Buildings on the Point

Record: P52/26/0/10

A railway track leads to a house and sheds standing by a fjord. Radio mast to one side, snow-covered hills behind.

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Maiviken and Jason Hr

Record: P52/26/0/11

View over snow-covered mountains and fjord.

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Looking down north arm of Cook Glacier

Record: P52/26/0/13

An expedition member stands by an empty sledge, a pyramid tent and a box on snow above a glacier which slopes away from the camera. Socks hang from a ski pole in the foreground, sea in the background.

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Bround Mound, Chisel Buttress behind

Record: P52/26/0/14

Delapidated tennis court and shed in foreground, fjord and snow-covered mountains behind.

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Dartmouth Point

Record: P52/26/0/15

Delapidated tennis court in foreground, fjord and snow-covered mountains behind.

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Policeman's house and tennis court

Record: P52/26/0/16

Delapidated tennis court in foreground, house and shed to one side, fjord and snow-covered mountains in background.

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Armadillo, Blue Top, and Tetrahedron peaks

Record: P52/26/0/17

View over snow field to snow-covered mountains.

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Kevin's Crag

Record: P52/26/0/18

View over snow field to snow-covered mountains, sledge and harnesses lying on the snow in the foreground.

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Temple and Pathfinders

Record: P52/26/0/19

View up a snow field to snow-covered mountains.

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Looking towards Grytviken from near King Edward Pt.

Record: P52/26/0/2

An expedition member stands on a steep, icy slope, fjord behind and below. Smoke rises from a group of sheds at the water's edge in the distance, snow-covered mountains behind.

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North arm of Cook Glacier and Cone

Record: P52/26/0/20

View up a snow field to snow-covered mountains, an expedition member sits in front of a tent, looking through a small camera(?), in the foreground.

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The Spikes

Record: P52/26/0/21

View up a snow field to snow-covered mountains.

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The Spikes and the Roundle

Record: P52/26/0/22

View up a snow field to snow-covered mountains.

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[Sledges and mountains]

Record: P52/26/0/23

Two loaded sledges (one partially out of shot) sit on a snow field, snow-covered mountains behind (under exposed image).

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The Shiverer

Record: P52/26/0/24

A loaded sledge (partially out of shot) sits on a snow field, snow-covered mountains behind.

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Cloudbreaker Pinnacle and South Ross Glacier

Record: P52/26/0/25

View over a glacier to snow-covered mountains behind.

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Looking down Ross Glacier - Royal Bay

Record: P52/26/0/26

View down a glacier to snow-covered mountains and sea in the distance.

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Mount Strata and Hopeful Pass

Record: P52/26/0/27

View over a glacier to snow-covered mountains behind.

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Mount Hopeful and Trendall on sledge

Record: P52/26/0/28

Tendall stands, on skis, next to a loaded sledge on snow. Skis and ski poles lie on the snow nearby. Snow-covered mountain peak stands in the background.

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Paget S., Pathfinders, Temple

Record: P52/26/0/29

(Blurred image)

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Looking across East Cumberland Bay to Snout Hill

Record: P52/26/0/3

View across fjord to snow-covered mountains in the distance. An expedition member holds up a small board with a number on in the foreground.

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Sentinel, just cloud-topped

Record: P52/26/0/31

View up a snow field to cloud-topped, snow-covered mountain peak (indistinct image).

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Mount Hodges and Grytviken

Record: P52/26/0/4

View over snow-covered mountains, the end of fjord to one side.

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Mount Duse and Grytviken

Record: P52/26/0/5

View over snow-covered mountains, the end of fjord below.

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Dartmouth Point and Moranen Fjord

Record: P52/26/0/6

View over fjord with snow-covered mountains behind, snow-covered ridge in foreground.

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[Mountainous coast]

Record: P52/26/0/7

View over fjord with snow-covered mountains behind.

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Barff Point

Record: P52/26/0/8

View over entrance to fjord, snow-covered rocky point to one side.

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Duse Ridge and Larsen Peninsula

Record: P52/26/0/9

Snow-covered ridge in foreground, sea with snow-covered rocky promontory behind.

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Ross Glacier down to Royal Bay and Cape Charlotte

Record: P52/26/10/10

View over glacier, mountains and fjord in the distance.

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Mount Hopeful

Record: P52/26/10/11

View over glacier to snow-covered mountain.

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Cat

Record: P52/26/10/12

View up a snow-covered slope to a jagged peak visible over the top.

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Allardyce Range - Sugarloaf, Humpback, Snoothface and Triangle. Also source of Lyell Glacier

Record: P52/26/10/13

An expedition member, holding up a small, numbered board, stands in front of a background of snow-covered mountains.

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Cloud coming up from Novosilski Bay, background Cathedral and Matterhorn

Record: P52/26/10/15

View down a snow-covered valley, snow-covered mountains in the background.

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Ross Pass

Record: P52/26/10/16

Skis and ski poles stand on an ice sheet, rock face to one side.

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Temple, Bluetop and Hopeful across Stina Glacier

Record: P52/26/10/17

View over a snow-covered slope to snow-covered mountains.

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Mount Strata and Ross Ridge Peak

Record: P52/26/10/18

View over a glacier to a mountain range.

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Allardyce Range - Mount Paget (N. and S.), West Pathfinder, Hopeful

Record: P52/26/10/19

An expedition member, holding up a small, numbered board, stands in front of a background of snow-covered mountains.

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Nose and Matterhorn

Record: P52/26/10/20

An expedition member, holding up a small, numbered board, stands on a snow ridge, snow-covered valley with mountains behind.

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Dog

Record: P52/26/10/21

View up a snow-covered slope to a jagged peak visible over the top.

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Shiverer (N and S) and Ross Minor

Record: P52/26/10/23

Three expediton members, One holding up a small, numbered board, sit on and behind a laden sledge on a glacier. Cliff face and snow-covered mountains in the background. A ski lies on the ice in the foreground.

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Side of Haddow Crag

Record: P52/26/10/3

View of a snow-covered mountainside with crag.

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Ross Glacier, Ross Minor, and Cloud breaker Pinnacle

Record: P52/26/10/4

An expedition member crouches behind the sledgemeter of a sledge (out of shot) on a glacier. A snow-covered mountain ridge stands behind.

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End Spike

Record: P52/26/10/5

View of a snow-covered jagged mountain peak.

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Stenhouse and Cumberland West Bay

Record: P52/26/10/6

View over mountains and fjord.

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Mount Hopeful

Record: P52/26/10/7

View over a snow field to a snow-covered mountain.

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Base of Sentinel

Record: P52/26/10/8

An expedition member, holding a small, numbered board, stands on ice next to skis and ski poles and another expedition member sitting on a loaded sledge (partially out of shot). A rocky ridge stands behind.

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Silo and ice fall from Shadow

Record: P52/26/10/9

View along steep, snow-covered slope to ice fall and a snow-covered mountainside.

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Tallboy, Nose, Shadow

Record: P52/26/11/1

An expediton member, holding up a small, numbered board, stands on a glacier, snow-covered mountains in the background.

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Allardyce Range - Sentinel, Shiverer N, White Pudding, Cloudbreaer, Crinkly Ridge, Warrior

Record: P52/26/11/2

An expediton member, holding up a small, numbered board, stands on a snow-covered slope, snow-covered mountains in the background.

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Looking down Sandwich Ridge to Gable, Undine South Harbour, and Paget S.

Record: P52/26/11/3

An expediton member, holding up a small, numbered board, crouches on a stone-covered ridge, snow-covered mountains in the background.

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Ridge south of Ross Pass, and Sentinel

Record: P52/26/11/4

An expediton member, holding up a small, numbered board, kneels amongst rocks, snow-covered mountains in the background.

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Shadow and ridge to Gable across Stina Glacier

Record: P52/26/11/5

View across a glacier to a snow-covered mountain ridge, rocks in the foreground.

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Allardyce Range south side - Mt. Paget S. to Blue Top

Record: P52/26/11/6

View across a glacier to a snow-covered mountain, rocks in the foreground.

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Top of Sandwich Ridge, South side

Record: P52/26/2/1

View up a snow field to snow-covered mountain ridge.

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Cape Charlotte and Royal Bay from West

Record: P52/26/2/10

View over snow to sea with mountainous coast behind. Tent (partially out of shot) to one side.

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Fang and Temple

Record: P52/26/2/11

View down glacier, snow-covered mountains to one side, sea in the distance.

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Cape Harcourt and Cape Charlotte

Record: P52/26/2/12

Three expedition members (blurred) move boxes and sacks which lie on the snow next to two upturned sledges, a pyramid tent stands pitched to one side. Rocky coast and sea in the background, cape in the far distance.

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Looking north from Camp 1 (Ross Glacier)

Record: P52/26/2/13

An expedition member, holding a pad, stands on a glacier, partially snow-covered mountainside behind.

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Shiverer and Cloudbreaker

Record: P52/26/2/14

View over ice field to snow-covered mountains.

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Spur between Moltke Harbour and Ross Glacier

Record: P52/26/2/15

Two expedition members (blurred) unroll sleeping bags on the snow near to a small tent around which stand boxes. Sledges and other bags stand nearby. Rocky ridge stands behind.

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The summer route up the Ross Glacier

Record: P52/26/2/16

An expedition member (blurred) walks past the camera on a glacier. Another stands, surveying using equipment mounted on a tripod, in the middle distance. Snow-covered mountains in the background.

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Summit of Gable and Pickersgill Island

Record: P52/26/2/17

View of snow-covered peak with a small board with the number 45 on it, sea in the background.

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Paget South from Camp 6

Record: P52/26/2/18

View over a glacier to snow-covered mountains.

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Looking SE at Johannsen Pt.

Record: P52/26/2/19

View over snow-covered mountains, sea to one side (poor quality image).

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Looking north across Ross Glacier

Record: P52/26/2/2

View over a glacier to mountain ridge.

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Snout of Stina and Brogger(?) Glaciers

Record: P52/26/2/20

An expedition member, holding a small numbered board, crouches on snow high above a ridged ice field. Two glaciers fall down a snow-covered mountainside in the background (poor quality image).

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Looking SE at Johannsen Pt.

Record: P52/26/2/21

View along snow-covered, rocky coast.

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Undine South Harbour

Record: P52/26/2/22

View looking down on a bay backed by snow-covered mountains with a glacier running down to the sea. An expedition member holds a small numbered board up in the foreground.

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Stina Glacier

Record: P52/26/2/23

View over glacier in between snow-covered mountains (indistinct image).

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Annenkov Is., Undine Toe, Cape Darnley and Cape Nunez

Record: P52/26/2/24

An expedition member sits on snow, mountainous coastline across open sea below, islands in the distance (indistinct image).

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Temple and Blue Top across Stina Glacier

Record: P52/26/2/3

View over a glacier to snow-covered mountains.

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Sentinel and top of Shiverer N, from west

Record: P52/26/2/4

View over a glacier to snow-covered mountains.

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Sawtooth Peak on extreme left

Record: P52/26/2/5

An expedition member stands on snow next to skis and ski poles making notes in a book, snow-covered mountain ridge behind.

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Looking down Stina Glacier at Undine South Harbour

Record: P52/26/2/6

View down glacier to snow-covered mountains and fjord.

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Sentinel, just cloud-topped

Record: P52/26/2/7

View up a snow field to cloud-topped, snow-covered mountain peak (indistinct image).

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Ross Pass, Hopeful, and Ghost

Record: P52/26/2/8

View over a snow field to snow-covered mountains.

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Sawtooth Peak

Record: P52/26/2/9

An expedition member (blurred) stands on snow next to skis and ski poles making notes in a book, snow-covered mountain ridge behind.

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Towards Undine South Harbour and Gable

Record: P52/26/3/1

View down a glacier towards the sea and mountainous, snow-covered coast.

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Allardyce Range at sunset

Record: P52/26/3/10

View up a snow field towards snow-covered mountains, sunlight on their tops.

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Cloudbreaker and Crinkly Ridge

Record: P52/26/3/11

An expedition member stands on a glacier at a camera on a tripod. Another expedition member sits on a on upturned sledge near a small tent, another sledge, lying on its side, skis and a pyramid tent (partially out of shot). Snow-covered mountains in the distance.

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Shiverer N. at sunset

Record: P52/26/3/12

View up a snow field to a snow-covered mountain ridge, its top in sunlight.

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Ridge along south side of Stina Glacier

Record: P52/26/3/13

View over a glacier to a snow-covered mountain ridge (under-exposed image).

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Shadow and Shadow pass

Record: P52/26/3/14

Two small tents, skis and a sledge on its side stand on a glacier, snow-covered mountains in teh background (under-exposed image)

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Cloudbreaker and South Ross basin

Record: P52/26/3/2

View over glacier to rough ice with snow-covered mountains behind.

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Stina Glacier and pass in Sandwich Ridge

Record: P52/26/3/3

View up snow field to glacier snout(?) and snow-covered mountains behind (indistinct image).

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Towards Temple, looking north across Stina Glacier

Record: P52/26/3/4

View up snow field to glacier snout(?) and snow-covered mountains behind (indistinct image).

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Shiverer at head of Stina Glacier

Record: P52/26/3/5

View up glacier to snow-covered mountains, an expedition member (blurred) stands by a small pyramid tent in the foreground (indistinct image).

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Ridge along south side of Stina Glacier

Record: P52/26/3/6

An expedition member, writing in a notebook, stands on a glacier, snow-covered ridge behind.

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Sentinel along south side of Stina Glacier

Record: P52/26/3/7

An expedition member (blurred), stands to on side on a glacier, snow-covered ridge in the background.

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Mount Hopeful and Sentinel

Record: P52/26/3/8

View up a snow field towards a snow-covered mountain bathed in sunlight.

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Mount Paget South

Record: P52/26/3/9

View up a snow field towards snow-covered mountains (indistinct image).

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Two glaciers coming into head of Moranen Fjord

Record: P52/26/5/1

Two glaciers flow down a cloud-covered mountainside into a fjord. An expedition member holds up a small numbered board in the foreground, a barren coast below.

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Reservoir and King Edward Cove

Record: P52/26/5/10

An expedition member, holding a small numbered board, stands on a above a cloud-shrouded fjord, small lake to one side.

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Duse Ridge and Dartmouth Point

Record: P52/26/5/11

View over partially snow-covered mountains, sea to one side. An expedition member, holding a small numbered board (blurred), stands in the foreground.

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Maiviken and Freshwater lake

Record: P52/26/5/12

View over partially snow-covered mountains, lakes in the foreground and sea to one side.

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Moranen Fjord

Record: P52/26/5/13

An expedition member holds up a small numbered board in the foreground, a fjord with a cloud-covered mountainside behind.

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Echo Buttress

Record: P52/26/5/14

An expedition member holds up a small numbered board on a rocky mountainside in the foreground, a valley with a small lake behind and partially snow-covered mountains in the background.

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East Cumberland Bay, Nordenskjold

Record: P52/26/5/15

View over fjord, snow-covered mountainous coast to each side.

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Mount Hodges and a lake

Record: P52/26/5/16

View over partially snow-covered mountains, a lake in a valley below in the foreground.

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Looking north up a valley behind Grytviken

Record: P52/26/5/17

An expedition member, holding up a small numbered board, stands on a rough ridge looking over a valley and partially snow-covered mountains.

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Mouth of Moranen Fjord and Dartmouth Point

Record: P52/26/5/18

An expedition member, holding up a small numbered board, stands on a rocky ridge, a fjord and partially snow-covered mountains behind, rucksacks in the foreground.

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Pedestal and Departure

Record: P52/26/5/19

An expedition member, holding up a small numbered board, lies on a rock, partially snow-covered mountains in the background.

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Sappho Point and Larsen Point

Record: P52/26/5/2

An expedition member holds up a small numbered board whilst standing on a rocky ridge, sea in the background.

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Mount Hodges

Record: P52/26/5/20

An expedition member, his back to the camera, sits on a rocky hilltop, jagged mountain peaks in the background.

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Lyell glacier and West Cumberland Bay

Record: P52/26/5/21

An expedition member, holding up a small numbered board, lies on a rock in the foreground. A glacier flows from snow-covered mountains into a fjord in the background.

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Maiviken and Larsen Point

Record: P52/26/5/22

View over wide bay surrounded by snow-covered mountainous coast.

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Looking out of Moranen Fjord (North)

Record: P52/26/5/3

View down a fjord, mountainous coast on either side. An expedition member holds up a small numbered board in the foreground.

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Neumayer Glacier across West Cumberland Bay

Record: P52/26/5/4

View over mountainous terrain to fjord with mountains on the far side, a glacier running into the fjord.

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Barff Point

Record: P52/26/5/5

View over sea to rocky point.

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Mount Hodges and the Twins

Record: P52/26/5/6

View over partially snow-covered mountains, sea in the background.

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Stenhouse and West Cumberland Bay

Record: P52/26/5/7

View over partially snow-covered mountains, fjord in the background.

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Echo Peak

Record: P52/26/5/8

An expedition member, holding a small numbered board, stands on a rough mountainside in front of a rock outcrop, partially snow-covered mountain in the background.

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Mount Duse and King Edward Cove

Record: P52/26/5/9

An expedition member, holding a small numbered board, stands on a rough mountainside above a cloud-shrouded valley, mountain and fjord in the background.

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Crown and Castle

Record: P52/26/6/1

View over a snow-covered glacier(?) to a rocky ridge.

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Lyell Glacier

Record: P52/26/6/10

View over barren landscape to glacier flowing between snow-covered mountains (poor quality image)

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Fortuna Bay

Record: P52/26/6/11

A tent, a box, binoculars and ski poles standing next it, stands on snow in the foreground, a bay with snow-covered mountains in the background.

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Sharp Peak (extreme right)

Record: P52/26/6/12

View over mountainous landscape.

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Looking south up Lyell Glacier

Record: P52/26/6/13

A glacier flows down a a barren mountainside.

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Pedestal (cloud capped) and Echo Pass

Record: P52/26/6/16

View of cloud-capped, snow-covered mountain, rock outcrop in the foreground.

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Stenhouse and Jason Harbour

Record: P52/26/6/17

View over mountainous landscape with lake below and fjord in the distance.

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Stenhouse

Record: P52/26/6/18

View over mountainous landscape with fjord in the distance.

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Stenhouse and Sharp Peak

Record: P52/26/6/19

View over mountainous landscape.

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Breakwind Rock and Fortuna Bay

Record: P52/26/6/2

An expedition member stands next to a tent (partially out of shot) writing in a notebook. A loaded sledge and two small tents stand on the snow behind. A snow-covered slope leads to partially snow-covered mountains in the background, a bay lying to one side.

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Towards Dartmouth Point and Barff Point

Record: P52/26/6/20

An expedition member sits on a rock on a rocky ridge holding up a small numbered board. Cloud-topped barren hillside running down to the sea in the background.

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Start Peak and pass to Stromness

Record: P52/26/6/21

View over snow-covered glacier(?) to a line of partially snow-covered mountains.

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Larsen Point

Record: P52/26/6/22

View over mountain peak which stands in the foreground by the sea, a mountainous promontory juts out into the sea behind.

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Mount Duse

Record: P52/26/6/3

View over mountainous landscape with lake below and fjord in the distance.

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West Cumberland Bay

Record: P52/26/6/4

View over mountainous landscape and fjord, an expedition member holds up a small numbered board in the foreground (poor quality image).

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Three Brothers and Redoubt

Record: P52/26/6/5

View over snow-covered ice sheet to snow-covered mountains.

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Maiviken and Freshwater Lake

Record: P52/26/6/6

View over partially snow-covered mountains, two lakes below, sea in the background.

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Lyell and Neumayer Glaciers and West Cumberland Bay

Record: P52/26/6/7

Two glaciers flow down snow-covered mountains into a large bay, barren landscape in front. An expedition member holds up a small numbered board in the foreground.

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Head of Moranen Fjord

Record: P52/26/6/8

A glacier flows down a barren, cloud-topped mountainside into a bay.

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Cornwell Peak

Record: P52/26/6/9

View over snow-covered ice sheet to snow-covered mountains with a glacier.

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Looking east from Camp 1

Record: P52/26/7/1

View looking up a snow field, snow-covered hillside to one side.

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Annenkov Island, Saturday Pt. and coast

Record: P52/26/7/10

View over a snow-covered mountainous coast, island in the far distance.

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Esmark Glacier and Kirkfell

Record: P52/26/7/11

A loaded sledge, a small tent and ski poles (all partially out of shot) stand on a glacier, snow-covered mountains stand in the distance (poor quality image).

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Looking north across Esmark Glacier

Record: P52/26/7/12

View over a glacier to snow-covered mountains in the distance (poor quality image).

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Glacier flowing to sea between Horten and Saturday Point

Record: P52/26/7/13

View over snow-covered mountainous landscape with glacier (poor quality image).

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Tower Ridge (saddle)

Record: P52/26/7/15

View up a snow field to a snow-covered mountain ridge (poor quality image).

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Redoubt, Spire, Dog, Jonathan, David

Record: P52/26/7/16

View over a cloud-shrouded snow field to snow-covered mountains protruding from the clouds.

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Tower Ridge (saddle)

Record: P52/26/7/17

Skis lie and stand in the snow in the foreground, snow-covered mountain in the distance surrounded by cloud.

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Three Brothers and Allardyce Range

Record: P52/26/7/18

View over snow-covered ice sheet to snow-covered mountain range.

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White Fell, Coast Peak and Nunez Peninsular

Record: P52/26/7/19

View from snow-covered peak, an ice-axe and rope lying in the foreground, over a mountainous coast.

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Down Esmark Glacier and Dome

Record: P52/26/7/2

A loaded sledge, two small tents and ski poles (all partially out of shot) stand on a glacier, snow-covered mountains stand in the distance (poor quality image).

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Tower Ridge (saddle) and Mount Victoria

Record: P52/26/7/20

An expedition member stands behind a small tent (partially out of shot) on a snow field, mountains in the distance behind.

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Kirk Fell, Panther across Esmark Glacier

Record: P52/26/7/22

An expedition member holds up a small numbered board from behind a small tent, around which skis lie on the snow and ski poles stand. Another two small tents and sledges on their sides stand on the snow behind. Snow-covered mountains stand across a glacier in the distance behind.

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West and Middle Stickleback

Record: P52/26/7/3

View over a snow field to snow-covered mountain ridge.

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Rocks below Mount Victoria

Record: P52/26/7/4

View over a snow-covered ridge to barren coast, rocks out to sea (indistinct image).

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Looking up Esmark Glacier

Record: P52/26/7/5

View up snow-covered glacier to cloud-covered mountains (indistinct image).