"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, a protecting floe-berg broken in two by cold temperature - sea water ice


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Humanities
Date
1876 (creation date)
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Place
Canada (creation)
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Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows an iceberg split in two in the northern ice pack, Cape Rawson, Canada, July 1876. A sled from the HMS Alert rests on the snow to the right. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 30 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."
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