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Graham Land (general region)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

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Adelaide Island on left, Grahamland [Graham Land] on right, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/157
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. A view of 'R.R.S. Shackleton' proceeding northwards between Adelaide Island and the mainland. The caption on the reverse of the print continues, in red ink: 'The first time this channel was navigated. Charcot reported it as impossible'.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Approaching Port Lockroy, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/160
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. A view from 'R.R.S. Shackleton'.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Argentine Islands and Lemaire Channel], 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/159
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Base Y. Horseshoe Island Marguerite Bay, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/153
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. A view of the shore from a ship, possibly 'R.R.S. John Biscoe'. The caption on the reverse of the print continues: 'The glacier we skied up is on the skyline almost in the centre'. This base had been established in 1955. On 13 March Arthur continued his voyage in 'R.R.S. Shackleton', which had joined the FIDS that season. FIDS is an acronym of the 'Falkland Islands Dependency Survey', which was the name of the British Antarctic Survey in its earlier days.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bill Johnston, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/155
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. Showing two men with water in the background. Johnston was captain of 'R.R.S. Shackleton' 1955-56, and retired from FIDS in 1964. FIDS is an acronym of the 'Falkland Islands Dependency Survey', which was the name of the British Antarctic Survey in its earlier days.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'British Crown Land' is the sign over this almost buried nissen hut amid the desolate acres at Hope bay in Graham Land, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/555
Scope and Contents From the Series: A series of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey photographs. This set of prints relates to the rescue of the party of scientists of the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey who were trapped at their base at Hope Bay after the station was gutted by fire in November 1948. Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Britain's Antarctic Outposts.(See Feature Set Intro. No.240).The story of John Biscoe's voyage to the Antarctic and of the eleven British scientists...
Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Danco Coast, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/162
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. A view from 'R.R.S. Shackleton'.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Danco Coast. View above new base 'O', 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/163
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. A view across a bay with an island in the centre. Base O was established on a small island off Rouge Island, but was not successful owing to lack of access inland.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Iceberg with land in the background], 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/165
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Luke' the dentist, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/156
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. The caption on the reverse of the print continues: Mosquito Bay behind. En route for Alexander Land'. Shackleton sailed south to Alexander Land from Marguerite Bay, but heavy accumulation of ice prevented her from getting nearer that ten miles from the shore.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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RRS John Briscoe, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/152
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. A view of the ship 'R.R.S. John Briscoe'. Arthur visited South Georgia in H.M.S. Protector, and transferred to John Briscoe, then on her last voyage for the FIDS, at Hope Bay on 10 March, 1956. FIDS is an acronym of the 'Falkland Islands Dependency Survey', which was the name of the British Antarctic Survey in its earlier days.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Shackleton at Argentine Islands, Base F, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/158
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. The caption on the reverse of the print continues, in a different colour ink, and in a different hand: 'RRS Shackleton G. land'

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Shackleton at base Y, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/154
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. A view of 'R.R.S. Shackleton' at base Y, Horseshoe Island, Marguerite Bay.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Tabular iceberg, 1954-11 - 1957-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/164
Scope and Contents

140 x 90 mm. The caption on the reverse of the print written in red ink continues: 'An old one, witness the caves and filigree work washed out by summer seas'.

Dates: 1954-11 - 1957-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The survey post at Hope Bay after the fire, consisted of tents partly buried in the snow, which made relatively cosy living quarters, 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/558
Scope and Contents From the Series: A series of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey photographs. This set of prints relates to the rescue of the party of scientists of the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey who were trapped at their base at Hope Bay after the station was gutted by fire in November 1948. Each has the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'Britain's Antarctic Outposts.(See Feature Set Intro. No.240).The story of John Biscoe's voyage to the Antarctic and of the eleven British scientists...
Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Transporting supplies by sledge, Hope Bay], 1954-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011XX/151
Scope and Contents

165 x 120 mm. The caption on the reverse reads: 'The only one in a shirt is O. R. A. Pushing is Major Anderson. Shirtless and pushing Dr Massey'. William Ellery Anderson, M. C. , M. B. E. had served in Korea before taking charge of Hope Bay, 1954-56. Dr Paul M. O. Massey was M. O. and 2nd in command. '..., a number of us, including the Governor, moved the crates and boxes from the icefoot to the hut.' (Anderson, 1957, p. 39)

Dates: 1954-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).