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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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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: See options below
Availability: In stock
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Postcard | 0.45 |
Greetings Card and envelope | 0.55 |
Arctic Animal Christmas Card

Arctic Hare and Arctic Fox. Watercolours by Sir John Ross on his second voyage in search of the Northwest Passage, 1829-33.
- Type: Christmas Card with envelope
- Colour
- Size: 17cm (width) x 12cm (height)
- Number per pack: 10
- Message: Season's Greetings
Price: 6.99
Availability: In stock
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
Availability: In stock
Captain Scott's Expedition at the South Pole

Captain Scott's Expedition at the South Pole, photographed on 18 January 1912.
- Type: Postcard
- Black & white
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.45
Availability: In stock
Christmas Card 'Parhelia'

Our Christmas card for 2019, 'Parhelia' meaning a bright spot in the sky appearing on either side of the sun, formed by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals high in the atmosphere.
Another magic lantern slide image to go along with our 2017 and 2018 cards from the Greenland British Arctic Expedition 1875-76.
- Type: Christmas Card with envelope
- Colour
- Size: 13cm (width) x 13cm (height)
- Number per pack: 5
- Message: Season's Greetings
Price: 3.99
Availability: In stock
Christmas Card 'Two ships sailing through icebergs'

Our Christmas card for 2018, Two ships (HMS Alert and HMS Discovery) sailing through icebergs. Walrus and birds on ice floes.
Magic Lantern Slide
Greenland British Arctic Expedition 1875-76.
Leader: Captain George Nares.
- Type: Christmas Card with envelope
- Colour
- Size: 13cm (width) x 13cm (height)
- Number per pack: 5
- Message: Season's Greetings
Price: 3.99
Availability: In stock
Emperor Penguin Chick pack of Christmas cards

Emperor Penguin Chick by Edward Wilson (1872-1912).
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- Size: 11cm (width) x 16cm (height)
- Number per pack: 10
- Message: Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Price: 6
Availability: In stock
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.
- Type: Postcard
- Colour
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.45
Availability: In stock
'Endurance' caught in the ice

'Endurance' caught in the ice of the Weddell Sea, mid-winter 1915. Photograph by Frank Hurley. Also available in a larger format card size 11.5x16.5 cm priced at £0.55.
- Type: Postcard
- Size: 10cm (width) x 15cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.45
Availability: In stock
Group of the Shore party, Officers & Crew S.Y. Endurance. Weddell Sea Base.

A greeting card showing the group photograph of the expedition members under the bow of the ship Endurance, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17. Photographer: Frank Hurley (1885-1962). Cello-wrapped.
- Type: Greetings Card and envelope
- Size: 16cm (width) x 12cm (height)
- Message: Blank
Price: 1.89
Availability: In stock
Herbert Ponting
Descriptions for each variation of this item below.
- Type: Greetings Card and envelope
- Number per pack: 1
Price: 1.99
Availability: In stock
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Huge ice bastions of the Castle Berg. Thomas Clissold the cook in the foreground, September 17th 1911 - British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 Individually wrapped. | Blank | 15cm (width) x 21cm (height) | ||
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Caption Oates tending ponies aboard ship during the Terra Nova expedition, 1910-13. Photographer: Herbert Ponting. Individually wrapped. | Photograph: Herbert Ponting | blank | Colour | 21cm (width) x 15cm (height) |
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The Terra Nova and a berg at ice-foot, 1911. Photographer: Herbert Ponting. Individually wrapped. | Photograph: Herbert Ponting | blank | Colour | 15cm (width) x 21cm (height) |
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Beautiful broken ice, reflections and Terra Nova, 1911. Photographer: Herbert Ponting. Individually wrapped. | Photograph: Herbert Ponting | blank | Colour | 21cm (width) x 15cm (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.
- Type: Postcard
- Colour
- Size: 24cm (width) x 11cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.45
Availability: In stock
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
Availability: In stock
King Penguins
Descriptions for each variation of this item below.
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- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
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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 |
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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. | Postcard | 0.45 |
Looking West Christmas card pack

Looking West by Edward WIlson (1872-1912).
- Type: Christmas Card with envelope
- Colour
- Size: 16cm (width) x 11cm (height)
- Message: Blank
Price: 6
Availability: In stock
MacDonald Gill
Descriptions for each variation of this item below.
- Type: Postcard
- Size: 11cm (width) x 5cm (height)
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.45
Availability: In stock
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Discovery postcard. | Discovery was built in Dundee for polar exploration and research. Her first voyage was on the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, led by Commander R. F. Scott RN. This image is a detail from the painted ceiling domes in the Memorial Hall of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, painted by MacDonald Gill. |
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Terra Nova postcard. | Terra Nova was used for whaling and polar exploration. In 1910, she departed from Cardiff with Captain R.F. Scott RN aboard on what was to be his last expedition. This image is a detail from the painted ceiling domes in the Memorial Hall of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, painted by MacDonald Gill. |
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Erebus and Terror postcard. | HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed in both Antarctic and Arctic waters. The ships sank in the Arctic during the British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845-48, led by Sir John Franklin, and were eventually located in 2014 and 2016. This image is a detail from the painted ceiling domes in the Memorial Hall of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, painted by MacDonald Gill. |
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James Caird postcard. | Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance was crushed in the ice of the Weddell Sea and sank in 1915. James Caird, a lifeboat, was transformed into a sailing vessel in which Shackleton and five companions sailed the 800 miles from Elephant Island to South Georgia. This image is a detail from the painted ceiling domes in the Memorial Hall of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, painted by MacDonald Gill. |
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Endurance postcard. | Endurance was built as an Arctic tourist vessel but purchased by Ernest Shackleton to use in Antarctica. In 1915 the ship was beset in the ice, crushed and sank in the Weddell Sea. This image is a detail from the painted ceiling domes in the Memorial Hall of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, painted by MacDonald Gill. |
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
- Colour
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.55
Availability: In stock
Paraselena Christmas card pack

Paraselena by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912).
- Type: Christmas Card with envelope
- Colour
- Size: 11cm (width) x 16cm (height)
- Number per pack: 10
- Message: Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
Price: 6
Availability: In stock
Reindeer

Reindeer, when being introduced into Alaska. From the Scott Polar Research Institute Picture Library's Raymond Priestley collection.
- Type: Postcard
- Colour
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.45
Availability: In stock
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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- Size: 15cm (width) x 15cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
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Availability: In stock
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Message | Name | Price each |
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Blank | Greetings Card and envelope | 0.99 |
Season's Greetings | Christmas Card with envelope | 0.6 |
Sir Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), Portrait. Photograph by Frank Hurley, from SPRI collection.
- Type: Postcard
- Black & white
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.45
Availability: In stock
Small Iceberg

Small iceberg in Hornsund, southern Spitsbergen. Photograph by J. A. Dowdeswell.
- Size: 21cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
Price: 0.6
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Blank | Greetings Card and envelope | |
Season's Greetings | Colour | Christmas Card with envelope |
Snow Bunting. Painting

Snow Bunting. From an original painting by Brenda Carter.
- Type: Postcard
- Colour
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.45
Availability: In stock
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.
- Type: Postcard
- Colour
- Size: 15cm (width) x 10cm (height)
- Number per pack: 1
- Message: Blank
Price: 0.45
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Spring Crossing of Kongsvegen, Spitsbergen

Spring Crossing of Kongsvegen, Spitsbergen. Photograph by David Rootes.
- Type: Postcard
- Colour
- 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
- Colour
- 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
- Colour
- 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
Availability: In stock