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Description: | On board HMS 'Alert' Lt. Parr recorded 'we brought up under the lee of an island just outside the bay and made fast to a large floe which stretched between it and the shore, there being no lead round Cape Prescott, but what seemed to be a solid mass of ice?. Franklin Pierce Bay was described as being three miles broad and two-and -a-half deep. The ships were delayed for nearly two weeks in this area while they waited for openings in the ice to allow them to proceed further north.
caption: Fast to a floe under Cape Prescott, Franklin Pierce Bay, 9 August 1875 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Arctic Photography | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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