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Description: | A view of the crew of a dog sledge helping to haul the eight-man sledge up their prepared roadway through the ice thrown up onshore by pressure. Nares reported in the Offical Proceedings that a passage frequently had to be cut through the squeezed-up ice with pickaxes, while Markham recalled in his book that pickaxes and shovels were a contant requirement in order to create a suitable roadway for moving the sledges across [Nares, Official Proceedings, p 20; Markham, The Great Frozen Sea, p275] | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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