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A collection of 47 gelatin silver prints, the majority mounted on card and with captions on verso, various sizes; a large collection of ca. 250 smaller snapshots of the expedition in 11 envelopes, with catalogue numbers on verso and a typed catalogue listing; and 74 colour slides "used for lecturing". Together with another collection of loose photographs of exploration in the Arctic, 1932-33; and several other groups of loose photographs from the same collection and relating to the same expeditions in the 1930's.(a lot)
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THE BRITISH GRAHAM LAND EXPEDITION, 1934-37
A collection of 47 gelatin silver prints, the majority mounted on card and with captions on verso, various sizes; a large collection of ca. 250 smaller snapshots of the expedition in 11 envelopes, with catalogue numbers on verso and a typed catalogue listing; and 74 colour slides "used for lecturing". Together with another collection of loose photographs of exploration in the Arctic, 1932-33; and several other groups of loose photographs from the same collection and relating to the same expeditions in the 1930's.(a lot)
John Rymill, born in Penola, South Australia, was the organiser of the British Graham Land expedition. He planned a journey by ship, sledge and aeroplane on the western side of Graham Land on the Peninsula, followed by a sledge trip to the Weddell Sea.The Penola, a converted British schooner, was the last sailing ship to take men south, and Discovery II was lent by the British Government to take supplies and the aeroplane. 'From 1935 to March 1937, Rymill and his party made a series of well-planned and co-ordinated journeys. They established that the straits which Wilkins assumed cut the Peninsula into islands were in fact glaciers which did no such thing. Another journey discovered King George Sound, a major channel between Alexander Island and the coast, proving that Alexander Island was in fact an island joined to the mainland only by ice. One sledging journey crossed the Peninsula from west to east' (Martin, A History of Antarctica, Sydney, 1996, p.188).
A collection of 47 gelatin silver prints, the majority mounted on card and with captions on verso, various sizes; a large collection of ca. 250 smaller snapshots of the expedition in 11 envelopes, with catalogue numbers on verso and a typed catalogue listing; and 74 colour slides "used for lecturing". Together with another collection of loose photographs of exploration in the Arctic, 1932-33; and several other groups of loose photographs from the same collection and relating to the same expeditions in the 1930's.(a lot)
John Rymill, born in Penola, South Australia, was the organiser of the British Graham Land expedition. He planned a journey by ship, sledge and aeroplane on the western side of Graham Land on the Peninsula, followed by a sledge trip to the Weddell Sea.The Penola, a converted British schooner, was the last sailing ship to take men south, and Discovery II was lent by the British Government to take supplies and the aeroplane. 'From 1935 to March 1937, Rymill and his party made a series of well-planned and co-ordinated journeys. They established that the straits which Wilkins assumed cut the Peninsula into islands were in fact glaciers which did no such thing. Another journey discovered King George Sound, a major channel between Alexander Island and the coast, proving that Alexander Island was in fact an island joined to the mainland only by ice. One sledging journey crossed the Peninsula from west to east' (Martin, A History of Antarctica, Sydney, 1996, p.188).