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Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
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The Terra Nova (1884) held up in the pack ice (Photographic print)
Lead opening and shadow of bowsprit. (Photographic print)
Items found in the boat with the skeleton, and at Ross Cairn and Northern Cairn. (Photographic print)
Items found from the Franklin Expedition, location unspecified, and at the Northern Cairn, near Cape Felix (Photographic print)
Items found 9 miles east of Cape Herschal, and on the east side of Montreal Island. (Photographic print)
Items obtained from the 'Boothian Esquimaux' near the Magnetic Pole (Photographic print)
A portrait photograph of Captain Leopold McClintock with a few of the Franklin relics he retrieved (Photographic print)
Items found in the boat on King William Island (Photographic print)
Items found in the boat on King William Island (Photographic print)
Items found in the boat on King William Island (Photographic print)
A view of the ruined church of San Giovanni al Sepolcro at Brindisi. (Photographic print)
HMS Scorpion (1863) underway at Bermuda. (Photographic print)
HMS Crescent (1892) underway off Halifax, Nova Scotia (Photographic print)
A photograph of a South Asian man and woman in Durban (Photographic print)
The most southerly land - looking from the Ice Shelf to Antarctica (Photographic print)
Emperor penguin with its young. (Photographic print)
The Discovery's coat of arms illustrated in the 'South Polar Times' (Photographic print)
The cliff near Hut Point over which Able-Seaman Vince fell and died. (Photographic print)
The furthest south: Lat 85° 17’ South, National Antarctic Expedition. (Photographic print)
The blast from an attempt to free Discovery (1901) (Photographic print)
The crew of Discovery (1901) waving off the Morning (1871) (Photographic print)
A view of Beaufort Island (Photographic print)
Looking down from the balloon across the plateau towards 'Discovery' (1901). (Photographic print)
The Aurora Australis, from the 'South Polar Times' (Photographic print)
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