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Subseries consists of photographs from Pocock's expedition with Oxford University to Spitzbergen, an island in northern Norway. This expedition took place in 1921 and is documented in Pocock's 1921 diaries. Subseries is arranged according to the order that photographs were processed.

Photograph of an unidentified man standing on deck of a ship.

Photograph of an unidentified schooner. Likely the Terningen, the boat used for the Spitzbergen Expedition.

Photograph of the snowy, mountainous shoreline of Magdalena Bay and the schooner Terningen taken from the shore. The schooner. Location and ship identified from Pocock's book A Chorus to Adventurers (1931, p. 242).

Photograph of an unidentified man holding a large bowl on the deck of a ship.

Photograph of unidentified men standing on deck of ship. Likely crew from the ship Terningen.

Photograph of an opened coffin and bones among the rocks of Magdalena Bay in Norway. Writing on reverse reads "The unburied dead of the Arctic". Location identified from Pocock's book A Chorus to Adventurers (1931, p. 243).

Photograph of sea lion on deck of ship. Likely on the deck of the Terningen.

Photograph of schooner. Likely the Terningen.

Photograph of a snowy, mountainous coast line taken from a ship. Likely Magdalene Bay in Norway.

Photograph of schooner. Likely the Terningen, the boat used for the Spitzbergen Expedition.