Scott Polar Research Institute
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, offers excellence in the study of the Arctic and Antarctic
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The Scott Polar Research Institute is pleased to offer high quality prints from its unique image collections. Choose from a wide selection of polar photography from the SPRI Picture Library. Prints are available in a range of sizes, framed or unframed and delivered directly to your door.
The Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge holds a world-class collection of photographic negatives and prints illustrating polar exploration from the nineteenth century onwards. SPRI Prints brings together a selection of the photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions held in the Institute’s collections. Here you can discover the Polar Regions through the eyes of those explorers and scientists who dared to go into the last great wildernesses on earth.
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The Terra Nova held up in the pack ice. December 13th 1910
Relief drawing of Scotts route to the Sout Pole
Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley at Patience Camp
In the pack ice, from the Main-top of the Terra Nova. (T. Gran and Lees). December 12th 1910
The Cavern in the iceberg without figures. Terra Nova in distance. January 8th 1911
The Captain, Shackleton and Wilson
The sledge dog Chris and the Gramophone
The Endurance among great blocks of pressure ice
The Endurance among great blocks of pressure ice
Chris and the Gramophone
The James Caird setting out for South Georgia
Gramophone with loudspeaker playing to penguins
Emperor Penguins at Cape Crozier
Saturday evening toast Sweethearts and Wives
The Terra Nova and a berg at ice-foot. January 16th 1911
S. Y. Nimrod leaving Lyttleton for the South on January 1st 1908
Discovery in winter quarters, McMurdo Sound looking north
Hut Point from the top of Observation Hill, January 1911. 5. 30pm
The Polar Party at the South Pole. Standing: Oates, Scott, Evans. Seated: Bowers and Wilson
Portrait of Ernest Shackleton
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Endurance at midwinter, 1915
Grotto in an iceberg. Terra Nova in the distance. Taylor and Wright (Interior). January 5th 1911
Herbert Ponting standing on his head
Portrait of Tom Crean
Return of the sun after the long winter darkness
Map of Scotts and Amundsens route to the South Pole
Tom Crean and the pups
Endurance crushed by the ice and sinking
Soccer on the floe whilst waiting for the ice to break up. December 20th. Lat 62. 42 17. 58 W
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Endurance waiting for the pack ice to open up
The Polar Party at the South Pole
Beautiful broken ice, reflections and Terra Nova. January 7th 1911
Perce Blackbarow and Mrs Chippy
Piper Gilbert Kerr and Emperor penguin off Coats Land, 1904
Scott Polar Research Institute
The Scott Polar Research Institute is pleased to offer prints from its unique image collections. Choose from a wide selection of polar photography from the SPRI Picture Library. Prints are available in a range of sizes, framed or unframed and delivered directly to your door.
The Scott Polar Research Institute, established in 1920 as part of the University of Cambridge, is a centre of excellence in the study of the Arctic and Antarctic. Research covers both the natural and social sciences and is often interdisciplinary. The Institute also houses the World's premier Polar Library, extensive archival, photographic and object collections of international importance on the history of polar exploration, and a Polar Museum with displays of both the history and contemporary significance of the Arctic and Antarctic and their surrounding seas. The Institute is a sub-department of the Department of Geography.
SPRI's mission is to enhance the understanding of the polar regions through scholarly research and publication, educating new generations of polar researchers, caring for and making accessible its collections (including its library, archival, photographic and object collections), and projecting the history and environmental significance of the polar regions to the wider community for public benefit
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