What exploration & discovery looked like in the 1910s
Sledges, tents, ponies and dogs on endless ice: the age of polar expeditions peaks in this decade.
Wool clothing and wooden ships frozen into ice are the tells to watch for.
1910s moments in the game
Hiram Bingham Reaches Machu Picchu1911
Discovery of Blood Falls in Taylor Valley1911
First to the Pole1911
Amundsen Departs for the South Pole1911
Wreck of the Endurance in Antarctic Ice1915
Shackleton's Endurance Trapped in Pack Ice1915
Dating a exploration & discovery scene
Ships
Single-masted ships are early medieval; caravels and carracks 1400–1600; big three-masters to the mid-1800s; steam and steel after.
Climbing and polar gear
Wool, leather and sledges pulled by dogs or men are before 1930. Nylon, bright down jackets and oxygen sets come after 1950.
The landscape
This theme gives away the map more than the year: pack ice, Himalayan ridges, rainforest rivers or desert dunes each cut the world down to a few places.