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Description: | The box, key, pivots and tripod table in a box are marked ACO1363.1-4 and can be found via the Whole/Part toggle.
Brass, leather covered.
From the ACO catalogue 139A. Another Arctic shore compass similar to No. 139. Date and manufacturer are unknown, but the box contains a label of Barrow & Owen, 26 Oxendon Street, Haymarket, London, showing that it had, at one time, passed through the hands of that firm.
This compass was used in the 1910-13 ?Terra Nova? Antarctic expedition. (On loan to National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)'.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Arctic landing compasses Discovery 1901 Terra Nova fl.1910 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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