British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09 (Nimrod) Gallery

Led by Ernest Shackleton, this expedition introduced a number of innovations, using both Manchurian ponies and a motor car for sledge hauling. Achievements included a sledge journey to the south magnetic pole and the ascent and survey of Mount Erebus, the active volcano on Ross Island. Copies from original historic photograph albums.

Mount Erebus crater

Ernest Shackleton

Southern Party at the Bluff Depot

Gramophone with loudspeaker playing to penguins

Shackleton. Return of Southern Party after 126 days journey

Nimrod held up in the ice

Arthur Edward Harbord

Harbord and Mackintosh

Training one of the ponies for the Expedition, Quail Island, New Zealand, Dec 1907

Bernard Day in his motor car

At the magnetic pole, Mackay, Mawson and David

S.Y. Nimrod leaving Lyttleton for the South on January 1st 1908

Midwinter Day at Cape Adare

Shackleton and Adams

Group photograph of shore party

Wild, Shackleton, Marshall and Adams on board ship

Furthest South

Evans, Shackleton and Adams

The Christmas camp on the plateau

Bill Adams

The Nimrod charging the ice of the Sound with her foresails set

The return of the Southern Party

Marshall and Adams SS Runic, December 1907

Wild, Knowton, Adams, Marshall, Sears, Marston, Roberts, Priestley, Joyce, SS Runic

Christmas Day 1908. 10, 000 feet high on plateau. Left to right Adams, Marshall, Wild

Wild, Shackleton, Marshall, Adams. Return of Southern Party after 126 days journey

Most southerly camp after blizzard. Left to right: Adams, Wild, Shackleton

Adams standing by the sledge which was used on the furthest south journey

Final start of the Southern Party

Jameson Adams

Harbord and Mackintosh

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