Freeze Frame - Historic Polar Images

If you are anything at all of a history buff, or just interested in the history of Kayaks, or even if you are the outdoorsy adventurous type (which you obvioulsy are, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this, right?) the you are going to love Freeze Frame of the Scott Polar Research Institute.

A blurb from the site -

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.

Obviously, exploring the artic is directly linked to kayaks, and there are a whole lot of really beautiful kayak photos of a 1930 expedition

Gusdiana bends over a half constructed kayak. She has one arm through a hole in the skin which covers the kayak and is pulling twine through the skin with her other hand. A dog sits in the background. 1930

An Inuit sits in a kayak. He has a harpoon(?) in one hand, in the other he holds string, the rest of which lays on the deck of the kayak. Also on the deck are a number of fish, another harpoon and a white canvas sheet on a frame. An empty kayak is in the water in the foreground. Behind, in the water, float ice floes.(Greenland 1930)

Hat tip Kayak Journal