Sujet
Lieutenant (Birdie) Bowers (1883-1912), Scottish born polar explorer, 1916. Artist: Unknown
Légende
Lieutenant Henry Robertson (Birdie) Bowers (1883-1912). Scottish born polar explorer, 1916. Henry Robertson was in charge of landing, stores, navigation and the arrangement of sledging rations on Captain Scott's final expedition, which left London on 1 June 1910 bound for the South Pole. They reached the Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that the Norwegian expedition under Amundsen had beaten them to their objective by a month. Delayed by blizzards, and running out of supplies, Scott and his team died at the end of March. Their bodies and diaries were found eight months later. Evans was one of the few to survive the expedition. John Player & Sons cigarette card series Polar Exploration, 1916.
The Print Collector collection
Date
1916
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C61_419
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
10,8Mo (644,9Ko) / 12,3cm x 22,1cm / 1448 x 2608 (300dpi)