They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration. The HMS Endeavour voyage (1768–1771) was the first devoted to scientific discovery. Cook and his crew, which included ...

This telescope was used on board HMS Discovery during the British Arctic Expedition from 1875-76. It was also used on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's National Antarctic (Discovery) Expedition from ...

in July 1794 during Captain George Vancouver's voyage in the Pacific on HMS Discovery (1791-5) and is one of the earliest documented pieces to have been collected among the Tlingit people.