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  • Ornamented borders of Tartary oak (Quercus McCormickii), anchors and a polar bear round circular images of the Antarctic Ocean with penguin and boat. Pencil drawing by E. Wilson?, c.1844.
  • Ornamented borders of Tartary oak (Quercus McCormickii), anchors and a polar bear round images of the Antarctic Sea with penguin and boat. Pencil drawing, c.1844.
  • Sir Ernest Shackleton's officers and crew on the deck of the Nimrod: expedition to Antarctica, 1907. Photograph, 1907.
  • An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq / By John Hawkesworth ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Edward Wilson of the Antarctic : naturalist and friend / by George Seaver; with an introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garard.

    Seaver, George, 1890-1976. | Date: [1933]
    • Books

    The polar world : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe / By G. Hartwig.

    Hartwig, G. (Georg), 1813-1880. | Date: 1892
    • Books

    Smithsonian at the poles : contributions to International Polar Year science / Igor Krupnik, Michael A. Lang, and Scott E. Miller, editors.

    | Date: 2009
    • Books

    The Antarctic Bill : [Bill 14 1993/94] / Patsy Hughes.

    Hughes, Patsy. | Date: 1994
    • Pictures
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    Ornamented borders of Tartary oak (Quercus McCormickii), anchors and a polar bear round images of the Antarctic Sea with penguin and boat. Pencil drawing, c.1844.

    | Reference: 18610i
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