Polar.- Voyages.- Cox (Nigel) Polar study executed while on the 'Benjamin Bowring', during the Transglobe Expedition led by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, watercolour, 1980

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Polar.- Voyages.- Cox (Nigel, b.1959) Polar study executed while on the 'Benjamin Bowring', during the Transglobe Expedition led by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, watercolour, signed and dated in pencil lower left, inscribed lower right, on ivory wove paper, sheet 950 x 570 mm (37 1/2 x 22 1/2 in), hinged onto mount, minor soft crease, light toning, unframed, 1980*** The Transglobe Expedition (1979–1982) was the first expedition to make a longitudinal (north–south) circumnavigation of the Earth using only surface transport. British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes led a team, including Oliver Shepard and Charles R. Burton, that attempted to follow the Greenwich meridian over both land and water.

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