Skip to main content
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Tickets and prices
Getting here
Accessibility
Family visits
Group visits
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £18 | Child: £9
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-6pm
Last entry 5pm
Adult: £18 | Child: £9
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
National Maritime Museum
Family fun
Astronomers Take Over
This brand-new interactive gallery gives curious minds aged 4 to 104 the space to play, learn and explore!
Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Events and festivals
Heritage Open Days
Celebrate England's largest festival of history and culture this September at the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
National Maritime Museum
Events and festivals
Moon Celebration Week
Join us to celebrate our beautiful celestial neighbour with a range of Moon-themed activities for all ages
Stories
Back
Stories
Maritime history
Space and astronomy
Art and culture
The ocean
Time
Royal history
What is the Merchant Navy?
Discover the role and history of the commercial shipping fleet – and its connections with Royal Museums Greenwich
Night sky highlights - September 2026
Spot Neptune through a telescope, see the Moon in the Beehive Cluster, and mark the autumnal equinox and equilux.
Making Waves: Dr Dawn Wright
Oceanographer and chief scientist Dr Dawn Wright on diving to the deepest part of the ocean – and why we need to stand up for our blue planet
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
Learning resources
School visits and sessions
SEND sessions and resources
Opportunities for teachers
Adult learning
Practitioner residencies
Schools
From astronomy to maritime history, bring your subjects to life with our school sessions and resources
Communities
Explore our groups, programmes and events developed with local and connected communities
Young people
Gain skills and hands-on experience with a range of creative activities, projects and events
Support us
Back
Support us
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Our sites
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to all results
Explore our Collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
filters…
Search
Item Category
Select…
Item Category
Item Category
Historic Photographs
Historic Photographs
Show all
'Unknown 64' Collection
Admiralty 10 Collection
Admiralty AD Negative Collection
Bedford Lemere photographs
Francis Frith & Co
Gibson's of Scilly
Henley Collection
H Oliver Hill Collection
Inglefield Negative Collection
Ivy Sharp Collection
Klein Collection
Richard Perkins Collection
Robbins Collection
Smiths, Suitall Ltd Collection
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
Attache case
Banjo
Boat compass and binnacle
Book pages
Carver chair
Chair
compass, boat
Drawing
furniture: chair
furniture: chair, carver
furniture: settee
Glass plate negative
Inkwell
Knife
Marine chronometer
medal, British: polar medal: Polar Expeditions 1904
Medallion
Needle case
Pegs
Penknife
Polar medal
Print
Safety pins
Scalpels
Settee
Sutures
Syringe
Thermometer
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
Wallet
Writing paper
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
brass
cotton
Gelatine dry plate
glass
gut
leather
liquid
metal
mica
moquette
mother of pearl
paper
presumed to have lead
rosewood
silk
silver
skin
Stainless steel
steel
watercolour with bodycolour
wood
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
Not on display
Creator
Select…
Creator
Creator
Allen & Hanbury's
Burroughs, Wellcome & Co
Cary
Gillick, Ernest George
Hurley, James Francis
J. Gardner & Son
J. Weiss & Son
Kelvin & James White Ltd
Marston, George Edward
Saulles, George William de
Thomas Mercer Chronometers
Unknown
Windsor, Arthur Octavius
Places
Select…
Places
Places
Birmingham
Edinburgh
Glasgow
London
Norway
South Georgia
Weddell Sea
Weddell Sea, Antarctic
Events
Select…
Events
Events
Antarctic Exploration: British, Australian, New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929-1931
Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913
Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917
Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Antarctic Exploration: Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, 1907-1909
Arctic Exploration: British Arctic Air-Route Expedition, Watkins, 1930-1931
Vessels
Select…
Vessels
Vessels
Discovery (1901)
Endurance (1912)
James Caird (1916)
People
Select…
People
People
British Antarctic Survey
Crean, Tom
Hussey, Leonard Duncan Albert
Macklin, Alexander Hepburne
Shackleton, Ernest Henry
VII, King Edward
Worsley, Frank Arthur
Century
Select…
Century
Century
19th
20th
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
1885
1904
1907
1909
1910
1912
1913
1914
1915
1917
Date To
Select...
5
1900
1904
1913
1914
1915
1917
1919
1920
1922
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
Clear all
showing 47 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
Polar Medal 1904 (Polar medal)
A dog-sledge at rest, with 'Endurance' (1912) in the background (Glass plate negative)
King Penguin with young (Glass plate negative)
'Endurance' (1912) in the ice (Glass plate negative)
Ocean Camp established on the ice, Weddell Sea (Glass plate negative)
A seven-dog sledge team on the ice with unidentified crew member (Glass plate negative)
The ice floes, looking forward from the port bow of 'Endurance' (1912) (Glass plate negative)
'The 'Endurance' in Heavy Pack, Weddell Sea, 1915' (Drawing)
Attache case
Safety pins
Penknife (Penknife)
Commemorative medallion (Medallion)
The ice cliffs of the snout of Hamberg Glacier, Moraine Fjord, South Georgia (Glass plate negative)
The snout of Hamberg Glacier, Moraine Fjord, South Georgia (Glass plate negative)
Hamberg Glacier, Moraine Fjord, South Georgia (Glass plate negative)
Settee
Chair
Chair
5229 (Marine chronometer)
Scalpels
Polar Medal 1904 (Polar medal)
Looking across newly formed ice with 'Endurance' (1912) on the distant horizon (Glass plate negative)
A very distant broadside view of 'Endurance' (1912) beset in ice (Glass plate negative)
Hussey and James working in the laboratory onboard 'Endurance' (1912) (Glass plate negative)
First
Prev
Current page
1
Page
2
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back to top