Museum Rooms Polar Realm
Arctic and Antarctic
“Artefacts & Photo’s from the Museum Collection
— Quote Source - The Curator
Hand illustrated Ships Chart from or Antarctic South of 66 Expedition
12 inch model of traditional canoe - compare to the video of the real thing, this is remarkably accurate - probably Greenland in origin.
Greenlandic Sled - you sit in not ride on dogs are run in a semi circle in front.
Note Gun behind the screen so hunter can sneak up - Model (East Greenland)
One of our many photos of Iceburgs
Chinstrap Penguins - Antarctica with MV Expedition in the background
Husky detail from one of our illustrated ships charts
Herbert Ponting - "official" Print Scott Expedition
North Pole Expedition & Marathon 90 North
Our beautiful Bellerby & Co Globe with bespoke Ice limits
North Pole - Marathon Victory - Ice Camp Barneo
Photo of 1775 Village - Sisimiut South West Greenland, with Bowhead Whale Jawbones
Photo Jakobshan glacier - Disco Bay West Greenland also known as Ilulissat UNESCO
Overlooking Disco Bay - Photo Greenland
North West Passage Expedition - Footsteps of Franklin - Hand illustrated chart from Maria Inez
Items from Iceland - Greenland - Canada - Svalbard various carvings and statues, seal, fox, stone, antler and other medium.
Polar Bear Spine? - Nunavut Canada
Orca - Killer Whales on of many species you can see in the Arctic
"Piggy back" hunting / work knives (Finland)
Polar Bear "stoppers" 30-06 and Win Mag cartridges (North West Greenland)
Reindeer and Silver bracelets - (Norway / Russia)
Siberia - Banyan (Sauna) Hat (Russia)
Polar Bear Bone carving - Churchill (Canada)
Soapstone bear carving (Churchill Canada)
Hand Carved Birch Bowl drinking vessel with bone handle hunting scene - Musuem collection artefact - Finmark
Hunting scne detail Elkhund and Elk - Hammerfest (Norway)
Seal skin gloves, shaman reindeer and birch drum, hunting knife and Fin-Racoon fur hut - (Samiland and Svalbard)
Short legged Svalbard Reindeer - digging for food. December - Longyearbyen - Svalbard - Spitsbergen. High Arctic. Interestingly an experiment importing Musk Oxen failed as the animals couldn’t survive as they could’t dig for food the same as Svalbard reindeer are able to.
100 Dogs cheering each other on. The noise and scene as dogs prepare to run in the polar night (day). High Arctic. These camps are usually out of town - for obvious reasons. Each “driver” will live locally in cabins (often without running water - showers in town twice week) and will look after 30 or so dogs.