Thursday, February 9, 2023

'Significant Antarctic Firsts' sources & image details

SOURCES


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IMAGES

Charles Nathaniel Worsley, Penguins King, Royal, Crested, 1902. National Library New Zealand

Cook’s Resolution and Adventure among the icebergs. State Library New South Wales

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen statue in Kronshtadt. Alexey Komarov, WikiCommons.

John O’Reilly & Liam Maloney at the unveiling of the Bransfield monument, Ballinacurra, Co. Cork, 30 January, 2021. Claire O’Reilly.

Antarctic ship. H. R. Mill, The Siege of the South Pole. London 1905.

Emile Danco portrait. A. de Gerlache, Le Premier Hivernage dans les Glaces Antarctiques Relation Anecdotique Sommaire du Voyage de la Belgica. Bruxelles, 1902.

Nicolai Hanson portrait. New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust.

William Colbeck image. Dundee Heritage Trust.

Belgica and men on ice, Nasjonalbiblioteket.

Southern Cross at sea, Dundee Heritage Trust.

Otto Nordenskjöld, Dictionary of Swedish National Biography.

Almevik, Avango, Contissa, Fontana, Lindström & Westin, Built cultural heritage in Antarctica remains and uses of the first Swedish SouthPolar expedition 1901–1903.

Inflation of Eva. Royal Museums Greenwich.

Photograph taken from Eva, British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1903, photo album, National Maritime Museum, Roya Museums Greenwich.

Aerial view of Gauss, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Drygalski portrait, Library of Congress

Reginald Koettlitz portrait. National Library of Norway.

Charles William Rawson Royds portrait. Christie’s.

Dr Reginald Koettlitz’s Medical Kit. Dundee Heritage Trust.

Silk flag of Bruce expedition. Royal Scottish Geographical Society via Glasgow Digital Library.

Piper and the Penguin. National Library of Scotland.

Shackleton, E. H. (ed.) Aurora Australis: 1908-09. Cape Royds, 1908.

1983 photo of Mount Erebus, Bill Rose. Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institute.

Frank Wild, Ernest Shackleton, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams on Nimrod. National Library of Australia.

Sir Hubert Wilkins. State Library New South Wales.

Graham Land map. H. Wilkins, ‘The Wilkins-Hearst Antarctic Expedition, 1928-1929’, Geographical Review Vol. 19, No. 3 (1929), pp. 353-376.

Richard E. Byrd. Deutsches Bundesarchiv.

Floyd Bennett in drift. Byrd, R. E. Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole. New York, 1930.

With Byrd at the South Pole. 1930.

Kathleen & Peter Scott, National Portrait Gallery, London.

Emily Shackleton, The Arizona Republican, 1 March, 1914.

Herbert, K. Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women Behind the World’s Most Daring Explorers. Vancouver, 2012.

Fletcher, A. Widows of the Ice: The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind. Stroud, 2022.

Ingrid Christensen & Mathilde Wegger. Sandefjord Whaling Museum.

Blackadder, J. Chasing the Light: A Novel of Antarctica. Sydney, 2014.

Caroline Mikkelsen. Norwegian Polar Institute.

Caroline Mikkelsen raising Norwegian flag at the cairn while Klarius Mikkelsen is giving a speech. Norwegian Polar Institute.

Jackie Ronne & Jennie Darlington, Polar Journal.

Finn & Jackie Ronne, joannakafarowski.com.

Kafarowski, J. Antarctic Pioneer: The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne. Toronto, 2022.

The Evening Star, (Washington, D.C), 15 March, 1953.

(L to R) Terry Lee Tickhill, Lois Jones, Rear Admiral David F. ‘Kelly’ Welch, Pam Young, Eileen McSaveney, Kay Lindsay, Jean Pearson stepping off the C-130 airplane at the geographic South Pole. Lieutenant Jon Clarke. southpolestation.com


(L to R) Pam Young, Jean Pearson, Terry Lee Tickhill, Lois Jones, Eileen McSaveney, and Kay Lindsay at the geographic South Pole. southpolestation.com

'Shackleton's Endurance Epic' sources & image details

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Endurance, Library of Congress

Endurance stern, Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/ National Geographic, Endurance22.

Scott, R. F. Voyage of the Discovery. 2 vols. London, 1905.

Shackleton, E. H. The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. 2 Vols. Philadelphia, 1909.

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Shackleton hand-drawn map, Royal Geographical Society via P. Barber, (ed.) The Map Book. New York, 2005.

The Times (London), 29 December, 1913.

Men Wanted for Hazardous Voyage: Pete Vass Design: https://www.vassdesignpolarart.com/trans-antarctic-expedition.

Frank Worsley, National Library of Australia.

Frank Wild Sketch by George Marston, E. H. Shackleton, (ed.), The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters 1907-1909. London, 1909.

Winston Churchill portrait by James Guthrie, Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Perce Blackborrow & Mrs. Chippy, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

John Blackborow, Perce’s grandson, in the Shackleton Endurance Exhibition in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, John O’Reilly.

South Georgia Island, British Antarctic Survey.

Endurance approaching pack ice, Austin Dwyer.

Cutting through ice around Endurance, February, 1915, National Library of Australia.

Tom Crean statue in Annascaul, Co, Kerry, Peter Kersten, Wikimedia Commons.

The upper deck showing housing of dogs, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Walter How, Endurance, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth.

A glimpse in the forecastle, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Saint & Shakespeare, Frank Hurley, National Library of Australia.

Midwinter dinner, 22 June, 1915, State Library New South Wales.

Our Midwinter dinner December, 2016, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork, Liam Maloney.

Night watchmen around the fire, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Endurance among ice pinnacles, February, 1915, Frank Hurley, National Library of Australia.

Endurance leaning over at forty-five degrees, Library of Congress.

Dogs looking at the wrecked Endurance, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Aerial view of Weddell Sea, Frank Hurley, National Library of Australia.

Hussey’s banjo, Royal Museums Greenwich.

Simon Middleton making the Vital Mental Medicine banjo, Kickstarter.

Hurley (Matt Day) & Shackleton (Kenneth Branagh), Shackleton, 2002, A+E Networks, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Firstsight Films with Australian Broadcasting Corporation, directed by Charles Sturridge.

Hoosh on the ice, Shackleton's Captain, 2012, Making Movies with Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion, directed by Leanne Pooley.

Camp and lookout tower, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Bertozzi, N. Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey. New Milford, 2014.

George Marston, Camp on the Breaking Pack Ice, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

First hot food after five days & nights spent in the open boats, Frank Hurley, State Library of New South Wales.

On Elephant Island, Shackleton's Captain (2012).

Working on the boat on Elephant Island, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Launch of James Caird & waving goodbye, Frank Hurley, National Library of Australia.

James Caird voyage, Austin Dwyer.

Crossing South Georgia, Shackleton's Captain (2012).

Routes of Endurance and James Caird, Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Shackleton, Worsley & Crean in Punta Arena, Instituto Antártico Chileno.

The coast looking east from Cape Wild, Elephant Island, Frank Hurley, State Library of New South Wales.

Shackleton portrait sketch by Sarah Barnard.

'Scott & Amundsen in Antarctica' sources & image details

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IMAGES

Sled used by Fram polar team, The Ski Museum in Holmenkollen.

Terra Nova and Fram, Department of Geology, University of Melbourne.

The Last Place on Earth (1985).

Nobu Shirase, National Diet Library.

Edgeworth David c. 1910, National Portrait Gallery Australia.

Katana made by Mutsu no Kami Kaneyasu in 1648, presented in November, 1911, Australian Museum.

Cool, F. A. My Attainment of the Pole. New York, 1911.

Peary, R. E. The North Pole. New York, 1910.

The Washington Herald (Washington, D.C.), 9 February, 1910.

Deseret Evening News (Utah), 10 March, 1910.

Evening Bulletin (Hawaii), 8 July, 1911.

The Hope Pioneer (North Dakota), 18 April, 1912.

Roald Amundsen, Norsk Folkemuseum.

Olav Bjaaland, Nasjonalbiblioteket.

Helmer Hanssen, Nasjonalbiblioteket.

Sverre Hassel, Norwegian Polar Institute.

Oscar Wisting, Larvik Museum.

Henry Robertson Bowers, Bonhams.

Edgar Evans, Swansea Museum Collection.

Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, Gilbert White’s House & The Oates Museum.

Robert Falcon Scott, National Portrait Gallery, London.

Edward Adrian Wilson, National Library of Australia.

Walker, G. Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World’s Most Mysterious Continent. London, 2013.

Work aboard Fram, Nasjonalbiblioteket.

Huntford, R. (ed.) The Amundsen Photographs. New York, 1987.

Amundsen, Hanssen, Hassel & Wisting at South Pole tent, photo by Olav Bjaaland, Norsk Folkemuseum.

Terra Nova leaving from the West side of Bute East Dock, Cardiff, 15 June, 1910, National Museum Wales.

Cherry-Garrard at his typewriter, 8 June, 1911, National Library New Zealand.

Expedition hut at Cape Evans, Australian National Maritime Museum

Tom Crean and Edgar Evans, State Library of New South Wales.

Ponting, H. G. The Great White South or with Scott in Antarctica. London, 1923.

Day & Lashly lean over the engine of a motor sledge, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Dramatic depiction of the southern party’s departure, The Last Place on Earth.

Part of the Antarctic Regions Showing the Sphere of Operations of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, under Capt. R.F. Scott, R.N., The Geographical Journal, 1913.

Oates, Scott, Evans, Bowers & Wilson at South Pole 17 January 1912, Australian National Maritime Museum.

Edgar Evans aboard Terra Nova, Dundee Heritage Trust.

‘A very gallant gentleman’ by J. C. Dollman, Dundee Heritage Trust.

Captain Scott’s final diary entry, 27 March, 1912, British Library.

‘The grave of Scott, Bill and Birdie. November 16, 1912. Latitude 79° 50' South. Longitude 169° 00' East.’, A. Cherry Gerrard sledging sketch book Vol. II, State Library New South Wales.

The Mercury (Hobart), 8 March, 1912.

The Evening Star (Dunedin), 12 February, 1913.

New-York Tribune, 16 April, 1912.

Heroes of the South pole, Grenna Museum

Monty Python's Flying Circus.

That Michell and Webb Look.

Robert Falcon Scott statue, Portsmouth Royal Dockyard Historical Trust.

Edward Adrian Wilson statue in Cheltenham, Pauline Eccles, geograph.org.uk.

Norwegian polar party statues at Fram Museum, Oslo, Palickap, Wikimedia Commons.