"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, floe-bergs aground protecting ship from northern pack


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Humanities
Date
1876 (creation date)
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Place
Canada (creation)
Description
Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows an iceberg within the northern ice pack at Cape Rawson, Canada, 1876. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 32 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."
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