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Far Flung Places
URL: http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/Exhibitions/FarFlungPlaces.asp

Description:
This small series of travel-themed exhibitions features images of the documents of travel (such as luggage tags and postcards), prints depicting sea travel in the 19th century, and images of "French expeditions to locate the South Magnetic Pole and claim territory on the last great continent in 1838 and 1840." From the State Library of Tasmania, Australia.

Publisher:
State Library of Tasmania

Extra Keywords
Antarctica

LII Database Information:
Record 26604 created by Jennifer English on 07/28/2008
Last modification on 08/13/2008
Published: 08/13/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26604