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Two polar explorers:  W

Description

Two polar explorers: W. S. Bruce and G. Isachsen. In the background isProfessor Hergesell of Strasbourg who conducted many upper atmosphereexperiments with sounding balloons between 1904 and 1907. Bruce overwinteredin both the Arctic and Antarctic. He directed the British Scotia expedition. Plate IV, print 8. In: Results of the Scientific Campaigns ... Vol. 89.

Credit

NOAA Rice Library of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

Display Date

1906

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space