Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1.

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Disco, Greenland

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Disco, Greenland

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Natives of Disco, Greenland

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Hans (Polaris ice-drift) and family

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Innuit family in Disco, Greenland

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Greenland landscape

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Prøven, Greenland

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Prøven, Greenland

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1981-27/1/8

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Egedesminde, Greenland

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1981-27/1/9

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Egedesminde, Greenland

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1981-27/1/10

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Egedesminde, Greenland

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1981-27/1/11

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Arctic Highlanders, Cape York, Greenland (Bow of Discovery)

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1981-27/1/12

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Payer Harbour, Cape Sabine - Remains of ice foot (78° 45’ N), 1st August 1875

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1981-27/1/13

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Cape Victoria, Latt 79° 0’ N: "Alert" signalling "Discovery" 'Take care of iceberg'

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HMS Discovery, Cape York

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1981-27/1/15

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Franklin Pierce Bay: Lat 79° 30’ N. No water to the northward

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Princess Marie Bay: Lat 79° 20’ N, "Alert" stopped

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Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 30’ N, no water north

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HMS Alert, Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 25’ N, walrus shoal (extreme northern point of migration of walrus)

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Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 30’ N, no water northward

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1981-27/1/20

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Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 30’ N

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Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 30’ N

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Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 30’ N. Open water northward

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Washington Irving or Sphinx Island, Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N

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Washington Irving or Sphinx Island, 79° 35’ N

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"Discovery" Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N

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"Discovery" Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N

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Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N - "Alert" cutting a dock

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Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N - "Alert" cutting into Dock

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Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N - Cutting a dock

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1981-27/1/30

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Cape Prescott, Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N - no water to northward, ships in dock

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Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N, Cape Prescott

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Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N, Empress Eugénie Glacier in distance

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Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N, Prince Imperial Island

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1981-27/1/34

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Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N (Dark part is young ice - one part over running the other)

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79° 40’ N

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79° 40’ N

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79° 40’ N

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79° 40’ N

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Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N, Cape Prescott

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"Alert" stopped off Cape Fraser, 79° 45’ N - no shelter, ships obliged to separate

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Cape Fraser in distance - Cape Collinson, 80° 10’ N

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Disco, Greenland with HMS Valorous and Discovery

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Egedesminde, Greenland

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Cape Norton Shaw, 80° 10’ N - Lieutenant Wyatt Rawson practising dog whip

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Rawlins Bay, 80° 20’ N - Icefoot, August, low water, small floe-berg aground

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1981-27/1/46

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Rawlins Bay, 80° 20’ N - small floe-bergs aground, low water

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1981-27/1/47

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"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, floe-bergs aground protecting ship from northern pack

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1981-27/1/48

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Radmore Harbour, Rawlins Bay 80° 20’ N - "Alert" forced on shore at high water. Low water-ice aground

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80° 20’ N - Icebergs and heavy floes

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Rubble ice late in Summer - Robeson Channel 82° 0’ N

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Rubble ice late in Summer - Robeson Channel 82° 0’ N

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Alert nipped between grounded floe-berg and the shore, Cape Beechey, 81° 45’ N

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Floeberg aground outside "Alert" - 3 days cutting it down to lighten it before it floated away, Cape Beachey, 81° 45’ N

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1981-27/1/54

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Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2.

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1981-27/2

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Cape Beechey, 81° 44’ N - Floe-bergs aground outside "Alert" - heavy northern pack drifting past with strong wind.

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1981-27/2/1

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1981-27/2

"Alert" stopped in Lincoln Bay, 82° 0’ N, floeberg aground in 12 fathoms

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1981-27/2/2

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1981-27/2

"Discovery" Bay 81° 44’ N: "Dicovery" preparing for sea, August 1876

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"Discovery" on shore - August 1876, Discovery Bay 81° 44’ N

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Discovery Bay, 81° 44’ N - winter quarters of "Discovery", September 1875. Dark part is the young ice uncovered by snow mixed with pieces of old ice

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1981-27/2/5

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"Discovery" winter quarters 81° 44’ N - a patch of ice frozen in with new ice

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1981-27/2/6

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HMS Discovery and Skating Rink - Photographed the 21 Feb 1876

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1981-27/2/7

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"Discovery" winter quarters, 1876 Spring - Latt. 81° 44’ N

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1981-27/2/8

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"Discovery" winter quarters 81° 44’ N - Spring 1876

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1981-27/2/9

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1981-27/2

"Discovery" winter quarters 81° 44’ N - Spring 1876

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1981-27/2/10

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"Discovery" winter quarters, Spring 1876 - Lat 81° 44’ N, guide posts to observatory

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1981-27/2/11

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"Discovery" winter quarters, Spring 1876. Trodden path on the floe: "The Measured mile"

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"Discovery" winter-quarters, Spring 1876, 81° 44’ N - Theatre Royal, heated air from lower deck escaping by galley funnel, appearing like steam

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"Discovery" winter quarters, 81° 44’ N, Spring 1876, temp - 64, Sun 1 above horizon

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1981-27/2/14

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"Discovery" 81° 44’ N

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Discovery Bay, 81° 44’ N, July 1876 - natural breakwater, Cape Lieber in distance, cairn of empty tins and post office

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1981-27/2/16

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Discovery Bay, 81° 44’ N, July 1876 - natural breakwater, Cape Lieber in distance, cairn of empty tins and post office

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1981-27/2/17

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Discovery Bay, 81° 44’ N, Cape Lieber in distance - esquimaux dogs. July 1876, natural breakwater

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1981-27/2/18

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North entrance of Robeson Channel - Lat 82° 0’ N. Floe-bergs and northern pack ice

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1981-27/2/19

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"Alert" winter-quarters, inside protecting line of floe-bergs, Latt. 82° 27’ N

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1981-27/2/20

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"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, Cape Rawson

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1981-27/2/21

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Head of musk ox

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1981-27/2/22

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"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N - Heavy grounded in sea ice

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1981-27/2/23

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"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N.Floe-bergs aground and northern pack

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1981-27/2/24

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"Alert" winter-quarters, floe berg beach, 82° 27’ N - Cape Rawson - north cape of Robeson Channel, northern pack with line of stranded sea ice

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1981-27/2/25

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"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

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1981-27/2/26

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"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N - keeling over at low water spring tides, chain cables to anchors buried on shore, June 1876, northern pack

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1981-27/2/27

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"Alert" 82° 27’ N. July - Northern pack blown offshore by heavy gale. Party on ice clearing passage through the barrier of floe bergs

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1981-27/2/28

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"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N- a protecting floe-berg being broken in two by pressure - sea water ice

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1981-27/2/29

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1981-27/2

"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, a protecting floe-berg broken in two by cold temperature - sea water ice

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1981-27/2/30

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"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, floe-bergs and sea water ice

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1981-27/2/31

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"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, floe-bergs aground protecting ship from northern pack

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1981-27/2/32

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Greenland division of sledges ready to start, HMS "Discovery" 81° 44’ N. Lieutenant Beaumont, Dr Coppinger

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1981-27/2/33

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H.M.S. "Discovery", 81° 44’ N - Western Division of sledges ready to start. Lieutenant Archer

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1981-27/2/34

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H.M.S. "Discovery", 81° 44’ N - The men & officers left behind after sledges started: dog sledge preparing to start for "Alert"; mask on snow bank - a face protector, flung away

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1981-27/2/35

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"Discovery", 81° 44’ N, dog sledge laden with musk ox

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30 foot snow slope at Cape Rawson 82° 26’ N, digging road for sledge, northern pack outside

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30 foot snow slope at Cape Rawson 82° 26’ N, hauling sledge to summit

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1981-27/2/38

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Cape Union - main road between "Alert" & "Discovery" on top of ice foot, 30-40 feet above pack ice, Lat. 82° 20’ N

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1981-27/2/39

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Cape Union - main road between "Alert" & "Discovery". Sledge lowered over ice foot on to floe beneath, finding the road not much improved

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1981-27/2/40

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Bivouac with dog sledge half way across Robeson Channel on a large paleocryptic floe: smooth surface, northern pack in distance, 82° 20’

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1981-27/2/41

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Bivouac in 'Westword Ho' Valley - 82° 40’ N

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1981-27/2/42

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'Westward Ho' Valley - 82° 40’ N

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1981-27/2/43

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'Westward Ho' Valley - 82° 40’ N

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1981-27/2/44

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