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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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Baen, Jean de
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Alexandra Bay [Princess Alexandra Harbour], Ellesmere Island
Baffin Bay
Buchanan Bay, Hayes Sound, Ellesmere Island
Cape Beechey, Ellesmere Island
Cape Collinson, Ellesmere Island
Cape Hayes, Ellesmere Island
Cape Louis Napoleon, Ellesmere Island
Cape Rawson, north coast of Ellesmere Island
either Point Joy near Cape Louis Napoleon, or Cape Hayes, or north of Cape Fraser
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Ellesmere Island, possibly off the north coast or Cape Beechey
Franklin Pierce Bay, Ellesmere Island
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Lincoln Bay, Robeson Channel, Ellesmere Island
Lincoln Bay or Wrangel Bay, Robeson Channel, Ellesmere Island
Near Floeberg Beach, north coast of Ellesmere Island
North Coast of Ellesmere Island?
North coast of Ellesmere Island?
Qeqertarsuaq
Radmore Harbour, Rawlings Bay, Ellesmere Island
Robeson Channel, Ellesmere Island
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Victoria Head, Hayes Sound, Ellesmere Island
Washington Irvine Island, Ellesmere Island
Winchester Valley, north coast of Ellesmere Island
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Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
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Nares Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876. (Photograph Album)
Starboard stern view of 'Discovery' (1873) cutting an ice dock four miles off Cape Hilgard in Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
A view of the crew of a dog sledge helping to haul the eight-man sledge up their prepared roadway below Cape Rawson (Photographic print)
View from just behind the store tent on the slopes of Mount Cartmel looking west along Discovery Bay towards the northwest coast and Mount Ovibos (Photographic print)
A view along Westward Ho! Valley. (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)
'Discovery' (1873) with awnings rigged and the tide gauge fixed at the stern, in Discovery Harbour, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay). (Photographic print)
A view looking into Franklin Pierce Bay from the western end of Cape Prescott (Photographic print)
A view looking south-southwest towards Cape Baird across the entrance to Lady Franklin Sound (Bay). (Photographic print)
'Alert' (1856) in Winter Quarters at 'Floeberg Beach' on the north coast of Ellesmere Island. (Photographic print)
A view from 'Alert' (1856) looking northwest up Dobbin Bay with 'young' ice and icebergs in the bay. (Photographic print)
'Discovery' (1873) with awnings rigged in Discovery Harbour, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay) (Photographic print)
'Discovery' (1873) with awnings rigged and tide gauge fixed at the stern, Discovery Harbour, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay). (Photographic print)
Alert' (1856), 'Discovery' (1873) and 'Valorous' (1851) anchored in Disco Harbour, Godhaven (Photographic print)
View from further up the slopes of Mount Cartinel looking south into Discovery Bay, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay). (Photographic print)
Two unidentified Inuit of Disco outside a hut close to the settlement at Godhaven. (Photographic print)
'Discovery' (1873) surrounded by loose ice in Discovery Harbour, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay). (Photographic print)
A view towards Cape Sabine from the shore at Port Payer, Ellesmere Island. (Photographic print)
A Group of Greenland Inuit on board HMS Discovery (1873) (Photographic print)
'Alert' (1856) beset in ice when off Cape Beechey having been pushed on shore and trapped by ice floes. (Photographic print)
A coal seam, about 25 feet thick, in a ravine in Water-Course Bay found by Mr C. Hart (Naturalist) to the northeast of Discovery Harbour. (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)
Starboard bow view of 'Alert' (1856), with Berrie, Ice Quartermaster, standing in the foreground behind a walrus which he killed. (Photographic print)
View from the ice of 'Alert' (1856) ashore in Radmore Harbour, Rawlings Bay, at low tide. (Photographic print)
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