Images Dated 2016

Inuit sewing skin on kayak

Photographer: Cozens, Henry Iliffe (1904-1995). Expedition: British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31. Leader: Henry George (Gino) Watkins. Date: 1930. An Inuit man sits sewing seal skin onto the wooden frame of a kayak. The kayak is supported on two barrels. Two Inuit women and a small child stand watching. A seal skin tent is behind, rocky terrain and water with ice floes in the background

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Towing moth with outboard motor

Photographer: Cozens, Henry Iliffe (1904-1995). Expedition: British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31. Leader: Henry George (Gino) Watkins. Date: 1930. A wooden dinghy with an outboard motor and two men standing in it tows a small wooden rowing boat with two men sitting in it and a De Havilland Moth sea bi-plane. A man stands on one of the seaplane's floats. Ice floes and hilly shoreline in the background

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Main Western sledging party

Photographer: Reginald William Skelton (1872-1956). Expedition: British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 (Discovery). Group of expedition members beside a sledge. Eight men standing, four men sitting. Standing: second from right - Tom Crean, third from right -Frank Wild. Seated: first from left - Edgar Evans

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