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'View of the island of Bou Shala with the bending pillars in its neighbourhood', 1772. Creator: Thomas Pennant.
 
World Map, 1562. Creator: Giorgio Sideri.
 
Map of Australasia and Antarctica, 1739. Creator: Philippe Bauche.
 
Map of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine Empire, Catalan Portolan chart, 1325. Creator: Pietro Vesconte.
 
Map of New Zealand, 1778. Creator: Giuliano Zuliani.
 
Human sacrifices at Otaheite (Tahiti), c1777-c1779. Creator: John Webber.
 
The Ewaiponoma, 1599. Creator: Unknown.
 
Habillement des Femmes du Roy, 1731. Creator: Unknown.
 
Ortelius' World Map, 1570. Creator: Abraham Ortelius.
 
Map plotting Magellan's route, 1536. Creator: Unknown.
 
World map, 1560. Creator: Joan Martines.
 
Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, c1535-1542.  Creator: John Rotz.
 
Map of the World, 1507. Creator: Martin Waldseemuller.
 
Procession to Ibu, 1840. Creator: William Walton.
 
Alexander the Great lowered into the sea in a glass bell, 1350. Creator: Unknown.
 
Captain, Sir John Ross, KS, RN, Scottish naval officer and polar explorer, 1835.  Creator: William Walton.
 
Endeavours River with the Vessel hauled on the Shore, 1770, (late 18th century).  Creator: William Byrne.
 
Map of Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 1770. Creator: Captain James Cook.
 
Members of Scott's expedition to the South Pole, 1912. Creator: Henry Bowers.
 
Scott's last letter from the Antarctic, 1912. Creator: Robert Falcon Scott.
 
Model of culture dish and penicillin mould. Creator: Unknown.
 
The cover of The South Polar Times, 1911. Creator: Unknown.
 
Sir George Strong Nares, Arctic explorer, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, admiral, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Commander Verney Lovett Cameron, explorer, 1878. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Sir Samuel White Baker, African explorer, 1880. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Henry Morton Stanley, African explorer, 1880. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of Royal Gardens at Kew, 1881. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Hormuzd Rassam, explorer and archaeologist, 1881. Creator: Lock & Whitfield.
 
Map of Tenochtitlan, Mexico, with Gulf Coast at left, 1524. Creator: Unknown.
 
The Astolabe caught in ice on its voyage of exploration to the Pacific Islands, Feb 1838. Creator: Auguste Etienne Francois Mayer.
 
Map of the Caribbean, c1578. Creator: Joan Martines.
 
Map of the Arctic, 1662. Creator: Joan Blaeu.
 
Isaac Casaubon's copy of the Hermetic texts, 1554. Creator: Unknown.
 
Captain Cook's log-book, 1770. Creator: Captain James Cook.
 
Sir Francis Drake, c1580, (1834-1837) . Creator: Samuel Freeman.
 
Sir Walter Raleigh, c1600, (1834-1837). Creator: Samuel Freeman.
 
The landing of Hernando Cortes in Mexico in 1519, 19th century. Creator: Unknown.
 
World map, 1490. Creator: Henricus Martellus Germanus.
 
A Maori bartering a crayfish with an English naval officer. 1769.  Creator: Sydney Parkinson.
 
'A View of the Endeavour's Watering-place in the Bay of Good Success', c1768-c1780. Creators: Sydney Parkinson, A Buchan, JF Miller.
 
Inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, c1768-c1780. Creators: Unknown, Alexander Buchan.
 
The Copernican System, 1660. Creator: Unknown.
 
Two portraits of Maoris, c1768-c1780, 1769. Creators: Sydney Parkinson, John Webber.
 
Haemisphaeri Graphicum Coeli Tiet, 1660. Creator: Andreas Cellarius.
 
Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1660. Creator: Unknown.
 
Coloured manuscript plan of Falmouth Haven, or Harbour, 1579. Creator: Christopher Saxton.
 
Coloured printed map of Wales and Anglesey, 1579. Creator: Christopher Saxton.
 
Engraved map of Northumberland, 1579. Creator: Christopher Saxton.
 
Printed map of Devon, dated 1575, with marginal notes by Lord Burghley relating to..., 1579. Creator: Christopher Saxton.
 
View of Lisbon, with ships tossed about in the treacherous waters of the inlet,, 1560-1632. Creator: Unknown.
 
New Map of the Northeasternmost Coast of America, 1666. Creator: Pieter Goos.
 
Columbus' Caraval, Santa Maria, 1492, c1900-1932. Creator: Harold Haven Brown.
 
Hiram Bingham, Aviator - At Desk, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing.
 
Georgii Iakovlevich Sedov, 1912. Creator: Nikolay Vasilyevich Pinegin.
 
R.E. Peary, between c1910 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service.
 
JJ Thomson, British physicist, c1896-c1915. Creator: Unknown.
 
Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist and her daughter Irene, 1925. Creator: Unknown.
 
Dr Alexander Fleming, the Inventor of Penicillin, Experimenting in a Laboratory, 1929. Creator: British Pathe Ltd.
 
Dr Alexander Fleming, the Inventor of Penicillin, Experimenting in a Laboratory, 1929. Creator: British Pathe Ltd.