This is an expedition history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of expeditions to set it in its historical context. If ...
History has no shortage of disappearances. Ships that vanished into fog, explorers who stepped off the edge of the known ...
Some of those specimens are on display here. Carefully collected on the way back from the Pole from the mountains which flank the treacherous Beardmore Glacier, they include coal, oolitic limestone ...