‘Stopped by the ice off Cape Prescott’ Size:M: 60 x 40cm King Edward VI is wearing

King Edward VI is wearing a fur-lined robe

Alan Stephenson

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President Lincoln

‘Stopped by the ice off Cape Prescott’ Size:M: 60 x 40cm King Edward VI is wearingMaritime view of H. M. S. Alert stopped by sea ice off Cape Prescott, Ellesmere Island, part of Nunavut, Canada. Plate from the book Narrative of a voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875 6 in H. M. ships Alert and Discovery by George Strong Nares, vol. 1 (Sampson Low, London, 1878). Alert and Discovery were the Royal Navy vessels employed on the British Arctic Expedition 1875 1876 commanded by Sir George Nares. The vessels progressed between Ellesmere