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Astronomical and navigational instruments

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2. Astronomy in the lecture theatre

3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models

4. Astronomy and print

Astrolabes and quadrants

Barometers

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Depth sounding

Electronic navigation

Exploring the Arctic

Franklin relics

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Herschel family

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Ordnance

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Sundials

Telescopes

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The astronomical telescope

The Herschels as artists

The Herschels as collectors

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Polar Equipment and Relics

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A Matter of Life and Death

Charting instruments

Compasses

Exploring the Arctic

Franklin relics

North America

Optical equipment

Routes and Resources

Textiles

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2. Astronomy in the lecture theatre

Africa

A Matter of Life and Death

Germany

House flag

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Routes and Resources

Sailors' craftwork

Telescopes Online Gallery

Textiles

The astronomical telescope

United Kingdom

Toys, games and music

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Africa

Exploring the Arctic

World Cultures

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Africa

A Matter of Life and Death

Cargo vessels

Fishing and hunting vessels

Franklin relics

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

North America

Pacific

Passenger vessels

Routes and Resources

Sailors' craftwork

South-East Asia

South America

South Asia

Type

Adze Head

Anchor, Ice

apparatus

Apparatus, Cooking

armament accessory, ethnographic: spear head

armament accessory: rod, gun cleaning

armament t&e, ammunition: bag, shot

armament t&e, ammunition: ball, musket

armament t&e, ammunition: ball, musket(11 pieces)

armament t&e, ammunition: canister, explosives

armament t&e, ammunition: cap, percussion(94 caps of 3 types)

armament t&e, ammunition: cartridge, wire(2 cartridges)

armament t&e, ammunition: cartridge, wire(3)

armament t&e, ammunition: cartridges, packet of(2 packets)

armament t&e, ammunition: cover, gun(gun or sword cover) ?

armament t&e, ammunition: cover, gun(sledge gun cover)

armament t&e, ammunition: flask, powder

armament t&e, ammunition: flask, shot

armament t&e, ammunition: hook, sword belt spring(fragment)

armament t&e, ammunition: lid, powder case

armament t&e, ammunition: screw plug, powder keg

armament t&e, ammunition: sheath, knife

armament t&e, ammunition: shot

armament t&e, ammunition: tampion, gun

armament t&e, edged weapon: arrow

armament t&e, edged weapon: bow

armament t&e, edged weapon: pike head

armament t&e: charger, shot

Arrow

Arrow shaft

Axe

Axe, Ice

Axe handle

Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class

Bag

Balaclava

Ball of wool

Balloon

Barrel hoop fragments

belt, sword spring-hook

Bible

biological t&e: tweezers, specimen collecting

Blanket Square

Block

Block sheave

Boat's thimble

Boat sheet hook

Boat weather-cloth

Boat weather cloth

Bolt

Bone comb

Book

book

Boot

Boot, inner

Boot, pair

Boot lace

Bootlace

Boots

Boots, pair

Bottle

bottle, water

Bow

Box

Box, dip circle

Box lid

Bradawl

Brass Fitting

Brass Plate

Brass pocket compass lid

Brimstone match

Brimstone matches

Bristles

Buckle

building: lighthouse

building: tent, ridge

building: tent, ridge(8 man sledge tent)

building component: pole, tent(4)

building component: pole, tent(5 poles)

Button

Buttons

Can

Canister

Canned food

Canteen

Canvas

Canvas cover

Cap band

Case, Document

ceremonial artifact: flag: ensign, naval(fragment)

Certificate Case

China

Chronometer box

Cigar case

Clasp Knife

Clay Pipe

Clay pipe

Clothes brush

clothing, footwear: boot(pair)

clothing, footwear: boot, inner(pair of moccasins)

clothing, footwear: shoe(pair)

clothing, footwear: shoe, over(pair)

clothing, footwear: shoe, snow

clothing, headwear: hat

clothing, headwear: helmet

clothing, outerwear: gauntlet(pair)

clothing, outerwear: shirt(fragment)

clothing, outerwear: trousers

clothing, outerwear: trousers, overall(snow repellers)

clothing accessory: brush, clothes

clothing accessory: button

clothing accessory: button(2 buttons)

clothing accessory: button(4 buttons)

clothing accessory: button, royal naval

clothing accessory: button, specimen

clothing accessory: gaiter(pair)

clothing accessory: neckerchief

Coat fragment

Cobbler's awl

Commemorative medal

Compass Corrector

Cook's Knife

Cooking Apparatus

Cooking apparatus

Copper plate

Copper Plate

Copper Sheathing

Copper sheet fragments

Copper strip

Corrector magnet

Cover, Sledge

Crow's Nest

Crow's nest weights

Curtain rod

Despatch balloon message

Despatch balloon messages

Dessert fork

Dessert spoon

Dip circle

Dip circle (part)

Direction post

Disc

Dish

documentary artifact: book

documentary artifact: book, prayer

documentary artifact: case, certificate

documentary artifact: despatch, balloon

Document case

Dowel

Drag, ice

Drinking flask

Drum

Duffle suit

Elm board

Equipment

Explosives canister

Eyebolt shackle

Face mask

File

Fish hook

fishing & trapping t&e: hook, fish

Fishing line

Flask, Drinking

Flask, Powder

Flask stopper

Flint & steel

Flint and steel

Folding rule

food service t&e: canteen

food service t&e: cup, tea(fragment)

food service t&e: fork, dessert

food service t&e: fork, table

food service t&e: handle, knife ?

food service t&e: knife, table

food service t&e: ladle

food service t&e: rations: bone, pork(fragment)

food service t&e: spoon

food service t&e: spoon, dessert

food service t&e: spoon, table

food service t&e: spoon, tea

Fork

Gaiter

Gaiter, pair

Gaiters

Gauntlet

Gimlet

Glass

Glass, Medicine

Glass painting

Glove

Gloves

Gold cord

Government paper

Gun-cleaning rod

Gun cleaning rod

Gun cover

Gun tampion

Gun tompion

Harness, sledge

Harness bag, sledge harness, and coil of rope

Hat

Helmet

Hide, ox

Hinge

Hip flask

Holder, Signal light

Hone

household accessory: scissors

Ice anchor

Ice axe

Ice chisel

Ice crusher

Ice drag

Ice saw

Ice tool

iceworking t&e: knife, snow

iceworking t&e: saw, snow

iceworking t&e: tool, ice

Inner boot

Inner boot, pair

Inner boots

Insulating jacket for cooking apparatus

Iron bar

Iron fitting

Iron plate

Iron plug

Jackstaff

Keel

Kettle

Knapsack

Knife

Knife, Clasp

Knife, Sheath

Knife blade

Knife clasp

Knife handle

Knife sheath

Label

Ladle

Lance head

land transport: sledge

land transport accessory: cover, sledge

land transport accessory: fitting, sail

land transport accessory: harness, sledge(for a man)

land transport component: section, sledge

Lead sheet

Lid

lighting device: box, match

Mast

Match box

Material

Meat can

Meat sample

Meat tin

Medal

medical & psychological t&e: bottle

Medicine chest

Metal plate

Mitten

Mitten, over

Mitten, pair

Mittens

Model tent

Mug

multiple use artifact: rope

Musket ball

Musket balls

Nail

Naval ensign

Navy sail canvas

Neckerchief

Notice

Oak chock

Oar

optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope

Order

Overall

Overall top

Overall topo

Overall trousers

Overcoat fragments

Over shoe

Over shoe, pair

Over shoes

Overshoes

Over trousers

Packet of cartridges

Packet of needles

Packets of cartridges

Paddle

Painted Glass Panels

Pair of boots

Pair of gaiters

Pair of overshoes

Pair of shoes

Pan

Pan, Metal

Pemmican Chopper

Pemmican tin

Pencil case

Pen knife

Percussion caps

personal gear: axe, ice

personal gear: goggles, snow

personal gear: goggles, snow(part)

personal gear: knife

personal gear: square, blanket(1 of 5)

personal symbol: broad arrow

personal symbol: crest

personal symbol: seal, admiralty

Pick axe

Pike-head

Pike head

Pipe stem

Plank, Sledge

Pocket chronometer

Pocket comb

Pocket compass

Pocket watch

Pocket water flask

Poem

Polar bear claws

Pole, Tent

Pork bone

Port-fire

Powder-case lid

Powder case lid

Powder case screw-plug

Powder flask

Powder keg screw-plug

Powder keg screw plug

Prayer book

Pulley

Purse

Record tin

Record tin with lid

relic: bar, iron

relic: bolt ?

relic: fitting, iron

relic: plate, copper

Ribbon

Ridge tent

Rivet

Rope

Rope grommet

Rowlock

Royal Naval button

Rum canister

Sail

Sail canvas

Sailcloth

Sail fitting

Sailmaker's palm

Satchel

Scented soap

Scissors

Scissors, sewing

Sea boot

Seal

Sealing wax

Sealskin suit

Seaman's bag

Sewing set

Sextant eyepieces

Shako plate

Sheet block

Shirt

Shirt fragment

Shoe, over

Shoe, over, pair

Shoe heel

Shoes

Shot

Shot bag

Shot charger

Shot flask

Shot in glove fingers

Shovel

Shovel, Ice

Signal light holder

Sledge

Sledge cover

Sledge cross piece

Sledge cross pieces

Sledge harness

Sledge Netting

Sledge netting

Sledge plank

Sledge runner

Sledge runners

Sledge section

Sledging Goggles

Slipper

Slipper, pair

Slippers

Smock

Snow goggles

Snow knife

Snow saw

Snow shoe

Soup can

Soup canister

Soup tin

Spear head

Specimen button

Specimen collecting tweezers

Spectacle lenses

Spindle

Spoon

Stalking sledge

Stalking sledge model

Stanchion

Stanchions

Stave

Stew pan

Stocking

Stove

Stove, Primus (parts)

Student's manual

Stuffed arctic fox

Stuffed arctic hare

Suit, Over

Suit, Sealskin

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: magnet, corrector ?

Sword belt spring

Sword belt spring-hook

Sword belt spring hook

sword spring-hook belt

Table spoon

Tablespoon

Tea canister

Tea cup

Teacup fragment

Tea spoon

Telescope

Telescope (part)

Telescope barrel and objective lens

Telescope draw tube

Telescope draw tube and objective lens assembly

Telescope eyepiece

Telescope eyepiece cover

Telescope eyepiece end

Telescope lens

Telescope part

Telescope support

Tent, Ridge

Tent pole

Tent poles

textileworking t&e: needles, packet of

Thread

Three wire cartridges

Timber fragment

timekeeping t&e: case, watch(fragment)

Tin

Tinder box damper

Tin flask

Tinned pemmican

toilet article: comb, bone

Tool, Ice

Toothbrush handle

Trousers

Trousers, over

Trousers, Overall

Two eyepieces, sextant

Ulu

Vesta case

Vinegar keg

Wallet

Watch cap

Watch case

Watch chain

Watch dust cover

Watch plate

Watch wheel

Water bottle

Water canteen

Water keg bung-stave

Water keg bung stave

water transport: fighting vessel: bomb vessel

water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: brig

water transport: service vessel: storeship

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

water transport accessory: board, elm

water transport accessory: canvas, navy sail(fragment)

water transport accessory: nail

water transport accessory: thimble, boat's

Waxed twine

Wedge

Weights, Crow's Nest

Wine bottle

Wire cartridge

Wire cartridges

woodworking t&e: dowel

woodworking t&e: file

woodworking t&e: gimlet(common shell gimlet)

written communication t&e: case, pencil

Yard hoop

Materials

(possibly: Mercury

animal hair

antler

Arsenic)

asbestos

base metal

bone

brass

bristle

British conifer (pine)

British oak

canvas

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) antler

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) sinew

caribou (Rangifer tarandus) skin

caribou skin

ceramic

cherrywood

china

claws

clay

cloth

coating: lacquer ?

copper

cord

cork

cotton

earthenware

ebony

elastic

elm

enamel

fabric

feathers

flesh

flint

gilt

gilt brass

gilt metal

glass

gold

grass

gunpowder

hemp

horn

inorganic: glass

iron

ivory

lace

lacquer

lead

leather

leather (cattle)

leather (lamb)

limestone

linen

Linen

mahogany

metal

metal (tinned steel?)

metal, copper

metal, gilt

metal: brass

metal: copper

metal: iron

metal: lead

metal: steel

metal: tin

metal: tin ?

musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) horn

oak

organic: canvas

organic: cotton

organic: flesh

organic: hessian

organic: horn

organic: leather

organic: leather, chamois

organic: sealskin

organic: skin

organic: tortoiseshell

organic: webbing

organic: wool

paint

paper

pine

porcelain

Pork bone (British)

ptarmigan (Lagopus muta or Lagopus lagopus) feather

rope

shell

silk

silver

silvered brass

sinew

skin

soap

steel

sulphur

synthetic: elastic

synthetic: glass

tar

textile

tin

tin, ?

twine

vellum

velvet

white metal

willow

wood

wood: lignum vitae, ?

wood: oak

wool

Display Location

Display - Atlantic Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Adams, George

B. Fellows

Barker, Thomas Jones

Bishop, William

Blomfield, Charles James

Boggett & Reynolds

Briant, H.

Browne, William H.

Cary

Chatterton, Randall

Chawner, William

D. & H. Edwards & Co.

Davis, Benjamin

Davy, Charles

Dexter, Benjamin

E., R.

Eaton, William

Eley, William

Esterbrook, William

F. Barnes & Co

Fearn, William

Ferris, George

Firmin & Sons Limited

G. & J. Hawksley

Gien Faïencerie

Goldner, Stephen

Guest, Thomas & Joseph

Hammond Turner & Dickinson

Hasluck, Thomas H.

Hawksley, C & J W

H V

Hynam, J.

I L

IV, John Harris

J. Bagnall & Sons

J H

John & Henry Lias

John Millikin

Kirkman, Kate

Krabbé, Frederick J.

Low, Josiah

Marshall, William

Moss, Edward Lawton

Mr Scullard

Parkin, Isaac

Powell & Co

R., J.

Richard Timmins & Sons

Robinson

Robinson, Thomas Charles

S .W. Silver & Co

Savory, Thomas Cox

Shepherd, George

Shipway, Charles

Smith

S Z

Thomas Ward & Co

Trayes, William

Turcon, C.

Turner, Charles

Unknown

W., R.

Wallis, Robert

W D

West, M.

Whiting, John James

Wigfall & Co

W R

Young

Places

Birmingham

Bristol

Canada

Dublin

Edinburgh

Exeter

Gien

Greenland

London

Nunavut

Portsmouth Dockyard

Sheffield

Strand

Unknown

Yeominster, England

Events

Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913

Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's First Overland Expedition, 1819-1822

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Anderson, 1855

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Austin, 1850-1851

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Collinson, 1850-1855

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Hall, 1864-1869

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, HMS Plover, 1848-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Inglefield, 1852

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClure, 1850-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Penny, 1850-1851

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Ross, 1848-1849

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880

Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876

Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Parry, 1827

Arctic Exploration: Parry's third voyage, 1824-1825

Arctic Exploration: Ross' second voyage, 1829-1833

Mutiny at the Nore, 1797

Vessels

Alert (1856)

Assistance (1835)

Breadalbane (1843)

Discovery (1873)

Enterprise 1848 (HMS)

Erebus (1826)

Fox (1855)

Fury (1814)

Great Britain (1843)

Hecla (1815)

Intrepid fl.1851 (HMS; of the Tay Whale Fishing Company)

Investigator (1848)

Isabel fl.1850

Lady Franklin 1850

Pioneer fl.1850 (HMS)

Resolute (purchased 1850)

Sophia fl.1850 (HMS)

St Fiorenzo 1794 (HMS)

Terror (1813)

Exhibition

North-West Passage

People

Alexander McDonald, Alexander

Armitage, Thomas

Back, George

Barrow, John

Beaumont, Lewis Anthony

Biggs, James

Burrard-Neale, Harry

Couch, Edward

Cracroft, Emma

Cracroft, Sophie

Crozier, Francis Rawden Moira

Dawes, Peter R.

Ebierbing, Joseph

Edwards, George

Fairholme, James Walter

Fawckner, William Henry

Fowler, William

Franklin, John

Goodsir, Harry D.S.

Gore, Graham

Greenwich Hospital

Greenwich Hospital Collection

Hall, Charles Francis

Hamilton, Richard Vesey

Harley, Daniel William, Daniel William

Harrison, Paymaster Edward Newell

Hickey, Cornelius

Hobson, William Robert

Hodgson, George Henry

Hornby, Frederick John

Inglefield, Edward Augustus

Irving, John

I W

J O

Jones, William

Kennedy, William

King George III

Klutschak, Henry

Lady Ommanney

Le Vesconte, Thomas Henry Dundas

Liverpool City Bacteriologist's Laboratory

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Macbean, Gillies Alexander

Mark, William

Markham, Albert Hastings

McClintock, Francis Leopold

Montijo, Eugénie de

Netchillik, Ookwolik

Ommanney, Erasmus

Osborn, Rear Sherard

Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase

Parry, William Edward

Peddie, John Smart

Peglar, Henry Peter

Penny, William

Petersen, Johan Carl Christian

Peterson, N. C.

Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria

Reed, William

Reid, James

Rendell, John

Rhodes, William

Ross, Arthur

Ross, James Clark

Royal United Service Institution

Sargent, Robert Orme

Scott, Robert Falcon

Soutar, William

Stanley, Stephen Samuel

Terry, Thomas

Thomas, Robert

Voeux, Charles Frederick Des

Wentzell, William

Wilks, Henry

Woolley, W P, W P

Wootton, James

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Ice anchor

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Explosives canister

Over shoes

A silver fiddle-pattern dessert fork owned by Lieutenant Graham Gore ('HMS Erebus') (Dessert fork)

Spoon

Tent, Ridge

Cook's Knife

Fork

Sledge cover

ZBA1612; Scott's snow goggles removed from tent

Sledging Goggles

Eugenie Helmet (Balaclava)

Commemorative label of Captain John Rendell (Label)

Spoon

Fork

Knife

Two polar bear claws (Polar bear claws)

Copper Sheathing

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