South Shetland Islands (island group)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Catchers ‘Southern Spray’, ‘Southern Flower’ and ‘Southern Pride’ forcing through pack ice on the way to South Shetlands, 27 October 1926, 1926-10-27
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/7
Scope and Contents
110 x 165 mm.
Dates:
1926-10-27
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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Cutting up whale carcasses, South Shetlands, 1900 - 1905
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795C/3
Scope and Contents
140 x 90 mm. postcard.
Dates:
1900 - 1905
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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South Shetlands Oct 1925 [view of ship], 1925-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30795B/6
Scope and Contents
110 x 165 mm.
Dates:
1925-10
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 John Biscoe 'iced-up' in Admiralty Bay amid the Antarctic ice-packs, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/559
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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When fresh water supplies run short, fresh water ice has to be collected, 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/556
Scope and Contents
The typewritten caption on the reverse continues 'On this ice floe in Admiralty Bay 'Chippy' McLeod and Third Officer Brooke are collecting fresh water ice'.
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).