British Polar Explorers: With 8 Plates in Colour and 19 Illustrations in Black & WhiteBrief accounts of selected expeditions. |
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Adélie Land Amundsen aquatint from Sir Arctic Baffin Bay blizzard boat BRITISH POLAR EXPLORERS canoes Cape Denison Cape Evans Captain Crozier Captain Scott coast Coloured aquatint command commenced Copper Mine River crew dogs E. A. Wilson eastward Endurance Erebus and Terror Eskimos floes Frank Wild frozen gale Glacier Greenland homeward Hudson Hudson's Bay hundred miles Hut Point Ice Barrier Island JAMES CLARKE ROSS January John Davis John Ross's Voyage Lashly last expedition latitude Lieutenant MacMurdo Sound Mawson Mertz MOUNT EREBUS mountains named Nimrod Northward pack ice Parry plateau Polar Sea ponies reached records relief expedition Royal Geographical Society sailed Scott's Antarctic Expedition seaman Shackleton Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition shore sighted Sir Clements Markham SIR JOHN FRANKLIN Sir John Ross's sledge journey snow South Polar explorers Southward Spitzbergen tent Terra Nova Victoria Land Voyage of Discovery Water colour weather whales whilst wind winter quarters Zealand