Arctic photo archive opens

Images taken by Arctic explorers have been made available on a new website.

Photos from Captain Scott’s ill-fated expedition are in the archive, compiled by the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University.

The Freeze Frame exhibition is free to access and contains photographs taken by Arctic explorers between 1845 and 1960.

Negatives, daguerreotypes and lantern slides have been digitised for the collection, with the aim of preventing the most fragile items from being lost forever.

Work began on the archive in 2007 and it is hoped that the collection will be valuable for all kinds of surfers.

You can also keep tabs on a current expedition to measure the thickness of sea ice in the Arctic regions.

Explorer Pen Hadow recently set out with the Catlin Arctic Survey and his progress is being tracked in Google Earth.

Watch Pen Hadow’s interview with Web User.