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Antarctic Relief Expeditions 1902-04 Collection

The Antarctic Relief Expeditions consisted of two voyages undertaken to aid the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04. These photographs chronicle the second relief expedition, 1903-04.

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Capt Colbeck and Dr Davidson visiting the Terra Nova

Lt Evans and Good adrift on a floe

Our first view of the Discovery from the ship

Terra Nova arriving at Discoverys winter quarters. Crew of Discovery boarding

Heavy weather

Two mines

Lt Royds about ready to fire a mine Terra Nova in the distance

Wet weather

Cape Crozier and the end of great ice barrier

Cape Adare

Mount Erebus, from the sea

Coaling in a blizzard

Dr Davidson on Franklin Island

Morning

Water warm berg, at sea

A mine. Showing cracks in the ice

Firing a mine

Leaving the Discovery 1903. Winter quarters in the distance

First sight of the Discovery 1903

Terra Nova in loose pack. Showing suns reflection on the water

Looking for the Discovery

Morning in Beaufort Strait

Hut Point Discovery Winter Quarters. Showing memorial cross for Vince

Sledging, eight men man-hauling a sledge

Sledging. Man-hauling a sledge on the ice

Coaling from the glacier, Mornings masts showing above the ice

Capt Colbeck and a Weddell seal

Dog team

Engineer of the Discovery

Football match between Mornings and Terra Novas. 18 miles from Discovery

Emperor penguin. Shadow of the photographer in foreground

Emperor penguin

Cape Armitage from the south, our farthest south

Weddell seal making for crack in ice

Weddell seal

Whale among the ice

Finner whale diving

Lt England with dead Molly mawk

Heavy weather. Waves washing over the deck of the ship

Capts Scott and Colbeck on top of an Island in McMurdo Strait

Standing by for a squeeze in McMurdo Strait

Lake on Cape Royds, Capt Colbeck and party in distance

Road post at Cape Crozier

Adelie penguin and chick on nest of stones

Skua gulls and Penguins on Franklin Island

Launching the boat at Franklin Island

Furling the head sails

Post office, Possession Island

Possession Island

Hut on Cape Adare

Cape Adare. A man walks amongst a group of Adelie penguins

Scott Island

Tabular iceberg

Dr Wilsons hut Cape Royds

Dr Wilson and party at Cape Royds

Water warm berg

Morning and Terra Nova at the edge of the fast ice 18 miles from Discovery Jan

Baby skua at Cape Royds

Dr Davidson and Lt Evans going sledging. The Drs tights were an experiment and were

John Donald Morrison, standing on deck of Morning

Capt Colbeck and Officers of the Morning

The Mornings goat

Capts Scott and Colbeck climbing on Island in McMurdo Strait

John Donald Morrison

Dr Davidson on deck

Ashore on Scott Island. Christmas Day 1903

Dr Wilson and Cross packing seal skins

Dr Edward Wilson entering his tent at Cape Royds

Two sledges

Sledging. Man-hauling a sledge on the ice

Sledging

Bashful Weddell seal

Terra Nova in McMurdo Strait

Reading records Cape Crozier

Adelie penguins and chicks

Skua gulls nest and eggs Franklin Island

Penguins on the beach, Franklin Island

The beach, Franklin Island, with Adelie penguins

The beach, Franklin Island

Ramming ice

Post office, Possession Island. A man places contents inside a canister

Scott Island. Rock formation

Islands in McMurdo Strait

Tabular bergs



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