"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, floe-bergs aground protecting ship from northern pack
- From The Collection Of
- Science Museum Group
- Discipline
- Humanities
- Date
- 1875 – 1876 (creation date)
- Materials and Techniques
- paper (fibre product) (material)
- Place
- Canada (creation)
- Description
- Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert bedded down for the winter in the ice pack. Snowy mountains loom behind the ship. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 48 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."
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- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Science Museum Group
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