Lat. 82 27' N. The Polar Sea, ice in motion, September 1875, looking north from a floe-berg at the winter quarters of the 'Alert.' Photographer: White, George
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Genre: Landscape Photography View across the ice, showing melting floes in foreground.
Lat. 82 27'. The Polar Sea, ice in motion, September 1875, looking north from a floe-berg at the winter quarters of the 'Alert'. Photographer: White, George
Lat. 82 27' N. Floe-bergs or grounded sea-ice at the winter quarters of the 'Alert,' May 1876. Photographer: White, George
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of floe-bergs, with a figure posed on the ice to indicate scale. Also reproduced in woodburytype in G. S. Nares, 'Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6' (2 vols., London, 1878), vol. 1, p. 355.
Lat. [8]2 27' N. An old floe-berg with upper surface melted since being forced on shore [winter quarters of H.M.S. 'Alert']. Photographer: White, George
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