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The Dash for the South Pole
The message on the reverse is addressed to Mr H. V. M. Clark / c/o G Clark Esq1 / Hawford Road / Apaua. It is dated Frid...
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Wooden walking stick carved by Aborigines and presented to R...
This walking stick was made by Aborigines for RRU Septimus Hungerford (1825-1927). Hungerford was born in Ireland and ar...
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Thoroughbrace Coach used by the Nowland family, with accesso...
It is possible that this coach was manufactured by Cobb & Co., however no physical evidence remains linking the object w...
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Harnessing in dogs and preparing to start - Captain's sledge...
The hand written message on the front reads 'companions who left Lyttelton, n.z. in the discovery on / December 24, 1901...
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Emperor penquin rookery at commencement of Great Barrier
The hand written message on the front reads 'after being frozen up / at the foot of Mount Erebus for over 2 years - was ...
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Wooden skis
Used by Robert George Dovers (1922-1981) in two Antarctic expeditions; the first to Adelie Land in 1951-52 and then wit...
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Discovery alongside the Barrier
The hand written message on the front reads 'the latest attempt t solve the / mysteries of the South Polar regions / was...
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Bryant and May 'Wax Vestas' match box, used by John Close to...
Used by John Collinson Close, an 'assistant collector' on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914, led by Dou...
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Three men and three dogs on the deck of a ship going to Anta...
The hand written message on the reverse reads 'This is the [?] the boat / that went to the South / Pole.'...
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Three page folded letter from John Close to Alice Close, Ant...
Written by John Collinson Close, an 'assistant collector' on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14, led by Do...
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Two page newspaper article titled Sir Douglas Mawson, As I k...
Written by John Collinson Close, an 'assistant collector' on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914, led by ...
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Wooden sword club made in the Cardwell district of Queenslan...
The TRIM file (p59) records this object as having come from a private museum at Chevy Chase, Dangarsleigh, Arrmidale, N....
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Page's dog Qus
The hand written message on the front reads 'from the most southerly point reached by / Ross in 1841, just 60 years earl...
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