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Antarctica Collection
Museum Victoria holds a significant collection of items relating to the history of Antarctic exploration. These items are mostly images, items of clothing, scientific instruments, artefacts relating to expeditioners' entertainments, philatelic items from Antarctica and medals and other awards. They range through the entire history of Antarctic exploration from early maritime exploration of Antarctica through the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration to the modern era of scientific exploration and Antarctic tourism.
The main collection groups are:
Phillip Law Collection: Phillip Garth Law (1912-2010) led the Australian exploration of Antarctica for 17 years as Director of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE). During this period ANARE operated from Melbourne. Following his retirement in 1966, Law actively promoted Antarctic heritage and compiled an extensive historical collection relating to Antarctic exploration and research. The Phillip Law Collection of over 1400 items, includes photos, clothing, philatelic covers, banners and plaques - mostly items used by, or presented to Dr Law.
George Rayner Collection: Rayner was a British photographer and biologist based at the research station at Grytviken in the Falkland Islands from around 1928 to 1939. He took part in a number of sub-Antarctic voyages as a member of the scientific staff of the Discovery II research vessel. The primary focus of his research was to establish the seasonal migration patterns of whales. Discovery II and Rayner also participated in the rescue of American aviator Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935-36. Rayner was also an avid photographer of his sub-Antarctic environment. The collection includes photos, clothing, camera and trunk.
The Antarctic Collection also includes items from earlier expeditions including those of Robert Scott (1901-1904), Ernest Shackleton (1907-09 and 1914-17) and Douglas Mawson (1911-1914 and 1929-1931). It includes clothing from Scott's Discovery expedition, an ice sledge used by Bertram Armytage on Shackleton's Nimrod expedition and meteorological equipment from the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition. There is also material from modern expeditions to Antarctica, Antarctic tourism and environmental campaigns relating to Antarctica.
Items per page: 10 50 (showing 21 - 30) 138 items
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Glass Negative - Copy of 'Mac-Robertson Land', Antarctica, 1929-1930
Glass Negative depicting the coast of Mac-Robertson Land. It is one of a number of glass negatives by Eric Douglas and Frank Hurley taken of photographs from Voyage 1 of the British Aus ...
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Photograph - Two Men with Weasel Vehicle & Sleds, The Australian National Antarctic Resear ...
Black and white image of two ANARE team members checking or loading a sled being pulled by a Weasel oversnow vehicle in Antarctica. The Weasel was the first mechanical oversnow vehicle ...
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Photograph - Man & Dog Team, The Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) ...
Black and white image showing an ANARE team member and his dog team at rest, they appear to be watching a penguin waddling across the snow in front of them. It is one of a set of 12 b ...
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Photograph - Mawson Station, The Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) ...
Black and white image showing Mawson Station.It is situated on an isolated outcrop of rock on the coast in Mac Robertson Land, at the edge of the Antarctic plateau. Built in 1954 it is ...
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Photograph - Survey Work, The Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE), A ...
Black and white image of an ANARE team member undertaking survey work. It is one of a set of 12 black and white photographs of the Antarctic taken mostly in the 1950s and 1960s showing ...
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Skis & Stocks - Wood & Metal, Modified for Antarctic Touring, circa 1950s-1960s
Pair of modified wooden skis with stocks. These skis were used by Peter Paish on a three month 1,100 mile return glaciological exploration journey from Mawson Base to the Amery Ice Shel ...
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Sledge - Bertram Armytage, British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
Ice sledge made to be towed by ponies or dogs. Used on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907- 1909, led by Ernest Shackleton, by Australian Bertram Armytage, a member of the expedition ...
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Matchbox - Norwegian-Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition, Swedish Match Company, 1952
Matchbox promoting the 1949-1952 Norwegian-Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition, manufactured by the Swedish Match Company, Sweden, 1952. They were used on Heard Island and in Antarctic ...
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Photograph - The Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE), Cosmic Ray Tel ...
One of a set of 12 black and white photographs of the Antarctic taken mostly in the 1950s and 1960s showing images of icebergs, birds, people, landscapes, transport and the establishmen ...
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Photograph - The Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE), Scientists Sta ...
One of a set of 12 black and white photographs of the Antarctic taken mostly in the 1950s and 1960s showing images of icebergs, birds, people, landscapes, transport and the establishmen ...
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