50+ Amazing Photographs From Antarctic Expeditions In The Early 20th Century

#1 F. Bickerton looking out over seas near Commonwealth Bay, 1912

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#2 Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall near Commonwealth Bay, 1912

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#3 The Air-tractor, 1912

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#4 Huskies pulling sledge, 1912

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#5 Hamilton hand-netting for macro-plankton from Aurora, 1912

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#6 Arthur Sawyer and sea elephant pup, 1912

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#7 Blizzard, the pup in Antarctica, 1912

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#8 Ice cased Adelie penguins after a blizzard at Cape Denison, 1912

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#9 Victoria penguin, Antarctica, 1911-1914

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#10 Sclater penguin, 1911-1912

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#11 Glimpse of the ship ‘Endurance’ through hummocks, 1915

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#12 Wreck of the ‘Gratitude’, Macquarie Island, 1911

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#13 Mushroom ice formation, 1912

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#14 A radiant turret lit by the midsummer midnight sun, 1912

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#15 Skeleton of sea-elephant and Harold Hamilton, 1912

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#16 Aurora traversing loose pack ice entering the Durville Sea, Dec. 1913

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#17 Australian Antarctic Expedition members in the kitchen, 1912

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#18 Frank Hurley washing cinematograph film on the “Aurora”, 1912

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#19 Start of the first Depot Journey; “The Grottoes”, 1912

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#20 Wild and Watson in sleeping bag tent on sledge journey, 1912

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#21 Mawson rests at the side of sledge, outward bound on first sledge journey in Adelie Land, 1912

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#22 Mertz leaving the hut by the trapdoor on the verandah roof, 1912

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#23 Frozen Adelie, Antarctica, 1912

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#24 Shags defending nest, Macquarie Island, 1912

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#25 Basilisk and Ginger at Main Base, 1912

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#26 Ice mask, C.T. Madigan, 1912

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#27 Bob Bage and J. Hunter at 65 miles south, 1912

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#28 Bage in the entrance to the Astronomic Observatory, Antarctica, 1911-1914

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#29 Young sea-elephants on the beach, Macquarie Ilsand, Antarctica, 1911-1914

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#30 Female sea-elephant, Macquarie island, Antarctica, 1911-1914

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#31 King penguins, Antarctica, 1911-1914

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#32 Weddell seal, Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 1911-1914

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#33 Unloading dogs at Western Base, February 1912

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#34 Winter quarters, Queen Mary Land winter, 1911-1914

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#35 A dreamy Venice in seal-land, 1911-1914

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#36 Unloading supplies at Cape Denison, 1911-1914

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#37 Madigan at the rail and Mawson stepping from the rail of the Aurora, 1911-1914

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#38 In full sledging gear on the plateau, 1911-1914

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#39 Photograph from the Expedition [group portrait], 1911-1914

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#40 The Aurora seen from within a cavern of the Mertz Glacier Tongue, Commonwealth Bay, Dec. 1913

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#41 Cape Denison during a blizzard, crampons had to be worn on boots and ice-axes used, even so progress was very difficult and could be perilous

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#42 Frank Hurley photographing under the bows of the ‘Endurance’, 1915

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#43 Frank Hurley with cinematograph, 1915

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#44 Glacier in New Fortuna Bay, 1915

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#45 New Fortuna Glacier, 1915

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#46 Sir Ernest Shackleton watching a lead forming, 1915

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#47 The Bosun ,John Vincent, of the ‘Endurance’ mending a net, 1915

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#48 The chick of the Wanderer Albatross, 1915

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#49 The deck of the ‘Endurance’, 1915

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#50 The ‘Endurance’ frozen in 76-35 South, 1915

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#51 The ‘Endurance’ under full sail, held up in the Weddell Sea, 1915

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#52 The impenetrable icefield which prevented them from reaching the land (showing part of the ‘Endurance’), 1915

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#53 The pink glow of the rising sun shining on a pressure ridge, 1915

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#54 The rigging of the ‘Endurance’ encrusted with rime crystals, 1915

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#55 Face of the Neumeyer Glacier, 1915

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#56 A mid-summer sunset with the ‘Endurance’ frozen in, 1915

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#57 A mid-winter glow, Weddell Sea showing the ‘Endurance’, 1915

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#58 A Sub-Antarctic sunrise in South Georgia, 1915

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#59 Alfred Cheetam signalling the Shackleton expedition, 1915

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#60 Dog teams scouting a way to the land, 1915

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