[Four optical illusion drawings].
Pen and ink drawings showing four different coastal features in the Arctic distorted by the refraction that occurs at low temperatures. See the account of the observations made at Port Bowen in Captain W.E. Parry's journal of his third voyage to find the North-West Passage.
Record details
| Item reference: | CMP/47/3/7; N1988-7(H) HED01/25 |
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| Catalogue section: | Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | Sheet: 255 mm x 309 mm |
| Date made: | circa 1824 |
| Creator: | Head, Horatio Nelson |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |