"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, floe-bergs aground protecting ship from northern pack
Object
- Accession Number
- OBJ_0026180
- Date
- 1875 – 1876
- Materials and Techniques
- paper (fibre product)
- Place
- Canada
- 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."
- 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."
- See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Science Museum Group
- CC BY
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