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Arctic shore dry compass
Arctic shore dry compass card
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documentary artifact: ship plan: rudder
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
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fishing & trapping t&e: harpoon, whaling
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food service t&e: plate
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furniture, ship's: trunk
Glass plate negative
harpoon, whaling
Hold
household accessory: ashtray
Ice axe
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land transport accessory: flagstaff, sledge
Lines
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medal, British: polar medal: Antarctic 1928-31
medal, British: polar medal: Antarctic 1930-31
medal, British: polar medal: Antarctic 1935-37
medal, British: polar medal: Arctic 1952-54
medal, British: polar medal: Polar Expeditions 1904
medal, British: prize medal: Royal Geographical Society Medal for Scott's Antarctic Expedition 1902-1904
optical t&e: telescope, bridge
personal gear: axe, ice
personal symbol: badge
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relic, animal: zoological specimen: penguin, stuffed emperor
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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
technical drawing
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water transport: exploration/research vessel
water transport: exploration/research vessel: cutter, survey
water transport: exploration/research vessel: polar research vessel
water transport: exploration/research vessel: survey vessel
water transport: model, exhibition(decked: equipped: half: stern)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged)
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: barque
water transport: steam vessel
water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(bow: cutaway: decked: equipped)
Whaling harpoon
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Bayes, Gilbert
Beale & Clove
Britten, Kenneth
Burton, J, & Bro Ltd
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Cluett, William C.
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F. C. Gould & Son
Gillick, Ernest George
Gillick, Mary
Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd
Grant, R.R.
Henry Barrow & Co
Jaeger
Mackennal, Edgar Bertram
Paget, Thomas Humphrey
Ross Ltd
Royal Doulton
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Severn-Lamb Ltd
Shackleton, Ernest Henry
Thatcher, Kelvin
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Wilson, Edward Adrian
Wray, David C.
Wyllie, William Lionel
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McMudo Sound, Antarctica
McMurdo Sound
Ross Island
Ross Sea
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
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Antarctic Exploration: British, Australian, New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929-1931
Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913
Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917
Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Antarctic Exploration: Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, 1907-1909
Arctic Exploration: British Arctic Air-Route Expedition, Watkins, 1930-1931
Arctic Exploration: British North Greenland Expedition, 1952-1954
British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-1937
Discovery Oceanographic Expedition, 1925-1927
Exploration: Challenger expedition, 1872-1876
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Bate, Edwin
Cambridge Scouts, Cambridge Scouts11th/9th
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King George V
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Mrs Ellison-Macartney
Parish, Edith M
Quartley, Arthur Lester
Queen Elizabeth II
Reid, Charles
Royal Doulton
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Royal Naval Auxiliary Service
Scott, Robert Falcon
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
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Arctic shore dry compass card
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The Bishop of London leaving RRS Discovery (1901) (Photograph)
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra boarding RRS Discovery (1901) off Cowes (Photograph)
Vesta case
Polar Medal 1910-36 (Polar medal)
Polar medal, Arctic 1953 (Polar medal)
Discovery (1901) off an icy cape, from the 'South Polar Times' (Photographic print)
The Discovery (1901) at Lady Newnes Bay. (Photographic print)
The Discovery (1901) 8 miles from winter quarters. (Photographic print)
The Discovery (1901) frozen in, banked up with snow. (Photographic print)
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