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Arctic shore dry compass
Arctic shore dry compass card
bedding: sleeping bag
Cap ribbon
Chocolate
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: ribbon, cap
Compass
Compass and binnacle
Compass in bowl
Dry card compass
Dry card compass and box
Electrometer
food service t&e: plate
Ice axe
land transport accessory: flagstaff, sledge
medal, British: polar medal: Polar Expeditions 1904
medal, British: prize medal: Royal Geographical Society Medal for Scott's Antarctic Expedition 1902-1904
meteorological t&e: electrometer
optical t&e: telescope, bridge
personal gear: axe, ice
personal symbol: badge
Photograph album
Plate
Pocket watch
Polar medal
presentation artifact: statuette
Prize medal
relic, animal: zoological specimen: penguin, stuffed emperor
Signalling telescope
Sledge compass
Sledge Flagstaff
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Stuffed Emperor Penguin
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry(Arctic shore)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket: compass, sledge
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, sledge: compass, dry card(Arctic)
surveying & navigational t&e: needle, total force
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope: transit, portable
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Total force needles
tumbler
watch, pocket
water transport: exploration/research vessel
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
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Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913
Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
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Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917
Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Cambridge Scouts, Cambridge Scouts11th/9th
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Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
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Walker, John D.
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Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
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Arctic shore dry compass card
Dry card compass
Polar Medal 1904 (Polar medal)
Dry card compass
tumbler
Royal Geographical Society Medal: Scott's Antarctic Expedition 1902-1904 (Prize medal)
Total force needles
Portable transit instrument (Telescope)
Signalling telescope
Total force needles
Polar Medal 1904 (Polar medal)
Cap ribbon
Pieces of chocolate (Chocolate)
Dry card compass
British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1903 (Photograph album)
Portable Electrometer No.51 (Electrometer)
Sleeping bag used by Vice Adm Sir Reginald Skelton as Engineer Lieutenant on Scott's First Antarctic Expedition 1901 (Sleeping Bag)
Stuffed Emperor Penguin
Sledge Flagstaff
Plate
Silver statuette of a explorer pulling a sledge (Statuette)
A long-handled ice axe. (Ice axe)
Captain Robert Falcon Scott's 'Discovery' watch (Pocket watch)
Sledge compass
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