"Alert" winter-quarters, floe berg beach, 82° 27’ N - Cape Rawson - north cape of Robeson Channel, northern pack with line of stranded sea ice
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- Humanities
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- Place
- Canada (creation)
- Description
- Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows the HMS Alert (very small in middle distance) trapped in the ice pack at Cape Rawson, Canada, during the winter of 1875-76. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 25 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."
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