A distant view of a caribou near the water's edge at Pauline Cove, Herschel Island

A distant view of a caribou near the water's edge at Pauline Cove, Herschel Island.

On 26 July 1996 the Kapitan Dranitsyn (1975) anchored off Pauline Cove near the abandoned whaling settlement on Herschel Island. Ivy Sharp wrote in her account 'Whilst there we saw a couple of caribou and I went close enough to photograph one which had entered a hut.'

Object details

ID: PM11770/8
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Sharp, Ivy
Date made: 26 July 1996
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Ivy Sharp Collection
Measurements: Overall: 25 mm x 36 mm