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Inside the megaship: on board one of the world's biggest container ships
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Carver chair
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furniture: chair
furniture: chair, carver
furniture: settee
lamp, bracket
lighting device: lamp, bracket
lighting device: tin, match
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Marine chronometer
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medal, British: prize medal: Royal Geographical Society Medal for Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909
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timekeeper: chronometer, marine
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Bayes, Gilbert
Carrington
Eves, Reginald Grenville
R. Bell & Co Limited
Shackleton, Ernest Henry
Thomas Malby
Thomas Mercer Chronometers
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Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
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Discovery (1901)
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E H Shackleton at the wheel of Discovery (1901) (Photographic print)
E H Shackleton, Captain Scott, and Dr Wilson on their return from the attempt to reach the South Pole, National Antarctic Expedition. (Photographic print)
5229 (Marine chronometer)
lamp, bracket
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The first sleding party from the ship, led by E H Shackleton (Photographic print)
Royal Geographical Society Medal: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 (Prize medal)
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, 1874-1922 (Painting)
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Ice chart of the southern hemisphere compiled from the voyages of Cook 1772-5, Bellingshausen 1819-21, Weddell 1822-4, Foster 1828-9, Biscoe 1830-2, Balleny 1839, D'Urville 1839, Wilkes 1839, Ross 1841-2-3, Scott 1901-4, and Shackleton 1908-9. (Chart; Print)
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