The record
Since 2010 the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Land Rover Bursary has lent a fully equipped Defender 110 each year to an expedition using it for geographical research and public engagement; the 2013 Pole of Cold team drove theirs to the coldest inhabited place on Earth in Siberia, returning it snow-caked to Land Rover in March 2014, and the vehicles feature in the Land Rover Heritage Collection's account of far-flung Defenders. The 2015 bursary went to Trail by Fire, a team of volcanologists who drove the Defender along the Andean volcanic arc through Peru and Chile, using it as a mobile laboratory to measure gas emissions from a chain of active volcanoes with drones and spectrometers. The bursary Defenders shared a specification: red 110 with snorkel, roof rack and expedition boxes, spot lamps, winch and RGS and Land Rover livery. Trail by Fire's own vehicle is not pictured in the source, which shows the Pole of Cold Defender returning from Siberia.
The registry's model follows the queue's brief: a red Defender 110 hard top rather than a station wagon, with snorkel, spot lamps, a roof rack of aluminium boxes that can be released as cargo, expedition lettering and roundels, and snow drifted over the bonnet, wings, roof, boxes, sills and bumper.
