Skip to main content

Antarctica

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Shackleton Antarctic Expedition

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0184
Scope and Contents

These photographs are mounted on heavy boards 30 x 23 cm. The pictures include photographs of personnel, activities of the party on water, land and ice, their ship, their longboats, their dogs and the animals seen in Antarctica. Many others pertain to the topography of the area, to icebergs, ice floes and glaciers.

Dates: 1906-1907

Travel Journals of Minturn Wright III, 1974-1997

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ANSP-2009-018
Scope and Contents Photocopied typescript of Academy's former trustee Minturn Wright III's travelogues. The ANSP offered high-end educational travel "expeditions" in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mr. Wright participated in at least the nine excursions represented here, across South and Central America, Eastern Canada, Mongolia, and the Antarctic between 1974 and 1997. The Academy's Senior Fellow Robert M. Peck travelled with Wright on the excursion to Mongolia in 1997, and Antarctica, 1994. It is through Peck that...
Dates: 1974-1997