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A view of the upper deck of 'Alert' (1856) looking aft from behind the main mast
A view of the upper deck of 'Alert' (1856) looking aft from behind the main mast.
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A port stern quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside the ice floe, with the crew cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
View from the ice of 'Alert' (1856) ashore in Radmore Harbour, Rawlings Bay, at low tide. (Photographic print)
The crew of 'Alert' (1856) cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay near Cape Hilgard. (Sheet film negative)
A view of the head of a Musk Oxen (Photographic print)
A view towards Cape Sabine from the shore at Port Payer, Ellesmere Island. (Photographic print)
A port stern quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside the ice floe, with the crew cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
A view in Alexandra Bay [Princess Alexandra Harbour] looking at the ice left grounded by the falling tide. (Photographic print)
A view of the sea ice in Robeson Channel from the coast off Lincoln Bay. (Photographic print)
Four different compositions of 'Alert' (1856) in the ice dock in Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
A view from near one of the ships towards Cape Louis Napoleon on the northeast coast of Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
A large split floe-berg aground off the north coast of Ellesmere Island (Photographic print)
Looking northeast with 'Alert' (1856) and 'Discovery' (1873) at anchor in Alexandra Bay [Princess Alexandra Harbour]. (Photographic print)
Discovery' (1873) ashore in Discovery Harbour with grounded ice, looking northwest from Bellot Island. (Photographic print)
A view looking northward along the North Ravine (Winchester Valley) towards the Polar Sea (Photographic print)
A view looking northeast towards Cape Hilgard, with 'Alert' (1856) in an ice dock in Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
Looking north to the head of Franklin Pierce Bay from 'Discovery' (1873). (Photographic print)
A view from 'Discovery' (1873) of the crew of 'Alert' (1856) cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay near Cape Hilgard. (Photographic print)
A view from one of the ice docks near Cape Hilgard in Dobbin Bay looking towards the northwest coast, with part of Cape Schott on the left (Photographic print)
A view of a section through the sea ice showing the overlying layers of fresh water ice and snow. (Photographic print)
A view of the coast of Greenland near Rittenbenk (Photographic print)
A view of the south coast of Washington Irvine Island (also known at the time as Sphinx Island) taken from near Cape Hawks. (Photographic print)
A view of young ice forming in the foreground around broken fragments of floe, cementing them together. (Photographic print)
A view of the upper deck of 'Alert' (1856) looking aft from behind the main mast (Photographic print)
A view looking west from entrance of Franklin Pierce Bay towards Cape Harrison. (Photographic print)
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