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Date: 1933

By: Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-ANTARCTICA-1933-01

Description: A large advertising poster for a lecture by Wilkins, printed in navy blue, the text surmounted by the image of the submarine "Nautilus" and itself surmounting the image of a plane with the words "Ellsworth Trans-Atlantic Flight" to the side of the plane. Other Titles - Coulls Somerville Wilkie In 1931, Sir Hubert Wilkins commanded the Nautilus submarine expedition to the Arctic. This was the first submarine to travel under the Arctic pack ice. During the 1930s, Wilkins travelled to the Antarctic four times as second-in-command of the Lincoln Ellsworth Flight Expeditions. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on poster, 855 (+ 160 folded under) x 380 mm.

Date: 21 November 1902

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 7

By: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: PAColl-6001-37

Description: Crew of the 'Morning' during a picnic at Otarama. Left to right, back row: C Parkins, O Riley, G W Rolfe, A Cheetham, J Sullivan, G Bilsby, H King. Middle row: W Hender, L Burgess, A Noyon, W Burton, J Wainwright, J Beer, A Coelho. Front row: F Taylor, A N Pepper, G R W Leavy, J A Chester. Absent: A Casement, J Hancock, F Kemp, T Good. Photograph taken by Sir Joseph James Kinsey on 21 November 1902. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1907

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/2-040929-G

Description: The ship `Nimrod' sailing for the Antarctic from Lyttelton Harbour in 1907. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 1956

From: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989 :200 original cartoons by Neil Lonsdale from 1955 to 1962.

By: Lonsdale, Neil, 1907-1989; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-309-098

Description: Shows four sailors lounging under a tree and feeding ducks by the Avon River. One of them is asking what people in Christchurch do to occupy themselves. In the background a couple is walking past with ten children and a pram. Refers to the American sailors who stopped in Sydney instead of Christchurch because it was considered `too dull'. Exhibited in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' exhibition of cartoons on the New Zealand-Australian relationship curated by Ian F. Grant of the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited in the National Library Gallery from 28 November 2001 to 24 February 2002 to mark the centenary of Australian Federation. Also exhibited at X Space Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland in mid-March 2002 and at Old Parliament House, Canberra, Australia from 26 March 2003 to 29 June 2003. Published in 'The Other Side of the Ditch' by Ian F. Grant, published by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive in association with Tandem Press, 2001. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, white-out and pencil. 283 x 339 mm.

Date: 2009

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0012905

Description: The cartoon shows lots of icebergs floating in the ocean. A tourist ship, a helicopter and an aeroplane take tourists to view the unusual sight. One of the icebergs says to another that it got laid off too but has heard that there is a vacancy at Franz Josef and another iceberg challenges it to a race. Refers to the news that a giant flotilla of 100 icebergs is passing just 260km off the coast of the South island. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1909

By: Hemus Sarony (Firm)

Reference: PA7-58-12

Description: Portrait of Shackleton taken in the Christchurch studio of Hemus Sarony in 1909 Inscriptions: Mount recto - bottom left - Hemus Sarony. Copyright Photo. ChCh; Mount recto - bottom right - Signed - Ernest H Shackleton 1909 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 24 x 18.5 cm (oval) on mount 38.4 x 31 cm

Date: 2006

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0002699

Description: The image shows a group of penguins, one of then holding a large sun umbrella, enjoying the sunshine on a beach in Dunedin. In the background looms a huge iceberg. Refers to the icebergs that have floated to a hundred kilometres off the Dunedin coast. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1901

Reference: 1/2-032269-F

Description: The royal research ship Discovery leaving Lyttelton Harbour on the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904), led by Scott. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 2010

From: Darroch, Bob 1940- :[Digital cartoons published in the Whangarei Report]

By: Whangarei report (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017628

Description: Two whales swim beneath a 'Save the whales' protest ship and chat about how they would miss the protesters if they all went home. Context - The activists were protesting at the continuing whaling activities of Japan in spite of international condemnation. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0003733

Description: Two sailors stare in dismay at the oil slick leaking into Lyttelton Harbour. They have just returned from the Antarctic where they have been catching Patagonian toothfish. One of the Patagonian toothfish, in revenge, has chewed a hole in the oil tank that is now leaking oil. Published in Shipping Gazette. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Kinnear, James Hutchings, 1877-1946 :Negatives of Auckland shipping, boating and scenery

Reference: 1/2-016452-G

Description: Robert Falcon Scott and his wife Kathleen, on Quail Island, circa 1910. The 2 men on the left are unidentified. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023886

Description: Shows a group of penguins discussing Prime Minister John Key. One of the penguins holds a newspaper and tells the other penguins, 'Hold it John Key's fainted.' Another penguin asks, 'What, he can't take a joke?' The statement is in reference to the cartoon, Key on Ice, from 18 January 2013, reference number DCDL-0023837. Key fainted at the Italian restaurant, Tutto Bene, in Christchurch ahead of his scheduled trip to Antarctica. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0023837

Description: Shows a group of penguins discussing Prime Minister John Key's visit to Antarctica, stating that it will be 'his best Pole result in ages.' Key visited Scott Base in Antarctica briefly in January 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1981

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0022076

Description: Shows a duck with the head of Air New Zealand boss Morrie Davis being shot at by several different duckshooters - the shooters represent 'financial problems', 'Commission of Inquiry' and 'overseas competition'. Context: Air New Zealand was under a lot of fire from all sources after the Erebus disaster. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0023269

Description: Shows a group of godwits as they decide to leave their 'frozen wasteland for a broken wasteland.' Refers to failed efforts to turn the Ross sea into a protected marine area. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

By: Southland times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018714

Description: A group of penguins down in the Antarctic chat and read the newspaper. One of the comments 'Holy mackerel... They're sending that useless Herman back. We'll have to find another country to despatch him to.' A second version has the penguin newsreader comment 'Holy mackerel... They're sending that useless Herman back. He'll be unbearable after all that media attention.' Context: Well we didn't know he was called Herman and dubbed him 'Happy Feet'. Herman arrived half dead at Peka Peka Beach and was revived and made given hero status at Wellington Zoo. He was sent on his way back to the Antarctic several months later. Two versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0018853

Description: The cartoon advertises a new film called 'HAPPY STOMACH - the sequel!' A killer whale leaps out of the sea and burps happily. Context: The cartoon suggests that the killer whale has just made a good meal of Happy Feet, the Emperor penguin, which was released into the wild after being cared for by vets at Wellington Zoo for a couple of months. Happy Feet was found rather outside its normal territory, on Peka Peka beach, north of Wellington two months ago - he nearly died after eating sand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018732

Description: Text reads 'Happy Feet to be released...' A killer whale, a shark (who yells 'Get ready here he comes!') and a seal grab their forks and tie on their napkins as Happy Feet, the penguin, swims unwittingly on its back towards them, clutching a map and wearing a tracking device. Context: Happy Feet was released into the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand more than two months after it came ashore on a beach nearly 2,000 miles from home. Happy Feet was found on 20 June on Peka Peka beach, about 40 miles north-west of Wellington. It had been 44 years since an emperor penguin was last spotted in the wild in New Zealand. (Guardian 4 September 2011) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: DCDL-0018158

Description: In the top frame a man reads in a newspaper that 'Whanganui Hospital sent a 93 year old home in a taxi, which left her on the porch!' His wife reads in another section of the paper 'Millionaire to return lost penguin to the ice' and says 'Someone should have called Gareth Morgan!' In the lower frame the husband yells at his wife 'Get real! An old lady wouldn't last five minutes in Antarctica!' Context - Bad treatment of a 93 year old woman by Whanganui Hospital and an offer by millionaire Gareth Morgan to return a King Penguin that arrived on Peka Peka beach, north of Wellington, to its home in the Antarctic. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [9 Feb 1917 ?]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: 114/167/03-G

Description: Copy of a photograph showing the statue of Captain Robert Falcon Scott (created by Scott's wife Kathleen), on the corner of Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace, Christchurch. Original photograph taken by an unidentified photographer, possibly on 9 February 1917 when the statue was unveiled. Copy taken 1950 by an Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6 x 6 centimetres