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"The Absinthe Drinker" (1901) by Viktor Oliva. Popular with artists and bohemians around the turn of the 20th century, absinthe was rumoured to have hallucinogenic qualities. Its emblem was that of a green fairy, later morphed into a devil or skeleton in anti-absinthe propaganda. The drink was banned in France and Switzerland until the 2000s.

An 1854 survey of the Regent's Park zoo in 1854. First opened for scientific research – and orchestrated by Sir Thomas Raffles, who founded Singapore – twenty years after its inception, paying visitors were allowed in.

The real Togo (left) lives on in the bloodline of Seppala Siberian huskies – where owners commonly attempt to trace their dogs back to their heroic ancestor. One such is the dog featured in the film, Diesel (right) a 5 year-old Siberian husky who was a direct descendent of Togo.

Nome in 1916. Nome's population exploded in 1899 when gold was found, and became a city in 1901, with around 12,500 residents.

Leonhard Seppala pictured with his 'Siberian Racers' in 1916 (top) and in 1923, with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Amundsen was the man who beat Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic in 1911 – and for whom in 1914, Seppala had trained a team of dogs for a North Pole expedition. The expedition was cancelled, and Seppala was gifted the dogs.

This diagram, a part of a study outlining the makeup of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica, shows how brine is injected into frozen and melting water to produce a red-brown waterfall.