Images Dated 2020 October

Portrait of Edward Bingham

Photographer: Cozens, Henry Iliffe (1904-1995). Expedition: British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-31. Leader: Henry George (Gino) Watkins. Portrait of Edward William Bingham sitting on a rock in full length rubber waders. A fishing rod leans on the rock next to him and two fish lie on the rock. He smokes a pipe and wears a trilby

© Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

The Christmas camp on the plateau

British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. Leader: Ernest Shackleton. J. Adams, E. S. Marshall and F. Wild stand in front of a pyramidal tent on a flat snow field. A loaded sledge stands next to the tent, a Union Jack flies from one flag pole and other flags fly from another. A theodolite stands on a tripod to one side, ice-axes stand in the snow