"Discovery" winter quarters, Spring 1876. Trodden path on the floe: "The Measured mile"
Object
- Accession Number
- OBJ_0026454
- Date
- 1875 – 1876
- Materials and Techniques
- paper (fibre product)
- Place
- Canada
- Description
- Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows a view of 'Discovery' Bay, taken from the top of a snow-covered mountain. The HMS Discovery can be seen in the ice floe, in the middle distance. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 12 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."
- Description
- Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows a view of 'Discovery' Bay, taken from the top of a snow-covered mountain. The HMS Discovery can be seen in the ice floe, in the middle distance. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 12 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."
- See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Science Museum Group
- CC BY
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