Expedition: British Arctic Expedition 1875-76. Leader: George Strong Nares (1831-1915). Original format: Lantern slide. Stylised drawing of a parhelia over icebergs. Whale in sea in foreground. A parhelia is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to the left and or right of the Sun.

Penola in Port Lockroy. Luigi di Savola Peak in background

The plane in Penola's anchorage, Stella Creek, 25 February 1936

Aeroplane on ice - fitted with skis - Base

Inuit people, kayaks, umiaks in Angmagssalik area

Northern party on arrival at Cape Evans, 7th November 1912

Capt Oates and Siberian ponies in the stable at Winterquarters Hut. May 23rd 1911

Edward Nelson, Bernard Day and William Lashly in Ernest Shackleton's hut

The Terra Nova and a berg at ice-foot. January 16th 1911

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Northern party on arrival at Cape Evans, 7th November 1912

Attributed to the Frank Debenham collection. Expedition: British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13. Leader: Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The six members of the Northern party, looking weatherbeaten and dishevelled pose for the camera standing by their laden sledge. Hut at Cape Evans in background. Left to right: Dickason, Abbott, Browning, Campbell, Priestley, Levick.

Terra Nova at ice-foot. Barne Cape and glacier in background. January 15th 1911

Iceberg in pack ice. Frank Debenham and T. Griffith Taylor on the ice. December 20th 1910

The Terra Nova sailing through the pack ice. December 11th 1910

Endurance in a pressure, a week before she was finally crushed

Endurance battling with high blocks of pressure ice

Endeavouring to cut the ship out of the ice, February, 1915

Relief drawing of Scott's route to the Sout Pole

Cape Crozier and the end of great ice barrier

Thomas Clissold the cook making pies. January 1912

Capt Scott writing his journal in the Winterquarters Hut

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Endurance in a pressure, a week before she was finally crushed

Photographer:Hurley, Frank (1885-1962)
Location:Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Expedition:Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17. Leader: Ernest Shackleton
Date:1915
Endurance in a pressure, a week before she was finally crushed

Under the Ice of the Castle Berg. September 17th 1911

The Castle Berg, with dog sledge. September 17th 1911

Bi-weekly ablutions of 'The Ritz' — Bi-weekly ablutions of "The Ritz"

Vagur, on the island of Sudero, Faroe Islands

Lopra, on the island of Sudero, Faroe Islands

The town of Vagur on Sudero, in the Faroe Islands

Paraselena. McMurdo Sound, 10.30am, 20 June 1911

Two unidentified expedition members on skis

Trying to cut the anchor free from the ice

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