"Alert" winter-quarters, Spring 1876, 82° 27’ N: stranded floe-berg turned bottom upwards, exposing the marks cut into it as it was forced on shore, similar to glacier scratchings
Object
- Accession Number
- OBJ_0026467
- Materials and Techniques
- paper (fibre product)
- Place
- Canada
- Description
- Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows the HMS Alert trapped in the ice pack at Cape Rawson, Canada, in spring 1876. An unidentified crew member stands on the ice pack to the left. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 26 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."
- Description
- Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows the HMS Alert trapped in the ice pack at Cape Rawson, Canada, in spring 1876. An unidentified crew member stands on the ice pack to the left. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 26 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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