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Welcome to Freeze Frame

Historic Polar Images, 1845-1982 from the Scott Polar Research Institute

The Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge holds a world-class collection of photographic negatives illustrating polar exploration from the nineteenth century onwards. Freeze Frame is the result of a two-year digitisation project that brings together photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Here you can discover the polar regions through the eyes of those explorers and scientists who dared to go into the last great wildernesses on earth.

Detailed catalogue entries are provided for each image. All image captions are taken from original sources, where known.  In digitising this resource the Scott Polar Research Institute has enabled Browsing through the collection by date, expedition or photographer, or Searching the content directly. Documents relating to the digitisation and web development process may be accessed via the Project tab.

The Freeze Frame project is funded as part of the JISC Digitisation programme and is hosted by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with DSpace@Cambridge.

• CONSERVE: Preserving the images for future generations
• DIGITISE: Providing access to some of the most important visual resources for polar research
• EXPLORE: Encouraging discovery of the polar environment