Lat. 82 25' N. Sledge party rounding Cape Rawson on top of ice foot, piled up 30 feet above the level ice against the shore. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
The head of a musk-ox. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Historical Events Head of a slaughtered musk-ox lying in the snow. The description of the hunting and killing of the animal, near St Patrick's Bay during a march between Cape Beechey and Discovery Bay, can be found in G. S. Nares, 'Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea...' (2 vols., Lon...
Lat. 82 34' N. View in Westward Ho! Valley, showing snow banks and glaciers. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along the valley, with a sledge and resting dogs in the foreground: '11th May [1876]…I have…started off Captain Feilden with Mr Egerton, Frederick and James Self and six dogs, for an excursion amongst the United States Range of hills. Mr. Mitchell accompanies t...
[Memorial plaque to Captain C. F. Hall.] Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Historical Events Close view of brass plaque to the memory of Captain C. F. Hall, erected by members of the Nares Expedition of 1875-6. Hall, from the U.S. Ship 'Polaris', died during an earlier expedition on 8 November 1871.