My trip to Papua New Guinea was the perfect way to start 2011.

These photos were taken on a fish-eye lens from a canoe going down the Sepik River – the Sepik is one of the world’s greatest rivers and is over 1200km in length. The greener shot is looking out over the fjords in Tufi.

PNG was a magical place, every bit as special as I’d imagined it could be. I especially loved the endlessly changing sky.

These brilliant snapshots are of the first Australasian Expedition to the Antarctic which departed Hobart in 1911. Led by Dr Douglas Mawson, the group of scientists visited Macquarie Island and undiscovered regions of Antarctica.

James Francis (Frank) Hurley was the official photographer, but other members of the crew also took pictures.

Oh! What I would give to be an explorer living in black-and-white pictures… definitely daydream-worthy material.