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Original negative scratched '[cropped]/8/75' (bl) Possibly a view from Cape Louis Napoleon looking northeast towards Hayes Point and Cape Frazer. However, the sheer cliffs with the scree slopes are very similar to the coastline off Cape Prescott. Moreover, the location is not positively identified, as the nature of the ice is wrong from the official description and the one by A. H. Markham in that it is not up to 20 feet high and closely packed.

Original negative scratched '[cropped]/8/75' (bl) Possibly a view from Cape Louis Napoleon looking northeast towards Hayes Point and Cape Frazer. However, the sheer cliffs with the scree slopes are very similar to the coastline off Cape Prescott. Moreover, the location is not positively identified, as the nature of the ice is wrong from the official description and the one by A. H. Markham in that it is not up to 20 feet high and closely packed.

Original negative scratched '14/8/75' (br) A view looking northeast towards Cape Hilgard, with 'Alert' (1856) in an ice dock in Dobbin Bay. The photograph shows the angled stratification of the rock face and the scree slopes down to the ice floe. The two ships steamed up Dobbin Bay on 14 August 1875 and secured to the land ice at about 5.30pm. At 6pm they commenced to cut an ice dock for each ship, finishing at about 9.30pm. On 15 August the ships left the docks after blasting a passage through...

Original negative scratched '14/8/75' (br) A view looking northeast towards Cape Hilgard, with 'Alert' (1856) in an ice dock in Dobbin Bay. The photograph shows the angled stratification of the rock face and the scree slopes down to the ice floe. The two ships steamed up Dobbin Bay on 14 August 1875 and secured to the land ice at about 5.30pm. At 6pm they commenced to cut an ice dock for each ship, finishing at about 9.30pm. On 15 August the ships left the docks after blasting a passage through the ice to a lead off Cape Louis Napoleon.

Original negative scratched '[cropped]/8/75' (bl) Possibly a view from 'Discovery' (1873) along the coast to Hayes Point, with 'Alert' (1856) beset in the ice in the distant. As the two ships passed Cape Louis Napoleon and northward to Cape Norton Shaw, the ice forced them to seperate and remain close inshore. However, the location is not positively identified, as the sheer cliffs with the scree slopes are very similar to the coastline off Cape Prescott. Moreover, the nature of the ice is wrong...

Original negative scratched '[cropped]/8/75' (bl) Possibly a view from 'Discovery' (1873) along the coast to Hayes Point, with 'Alert' (1856) beset in the ice in the distant. As the two ships passed Cape Louis Napoleon and northward to Cape Norton Shaw, the ice forced them to seperate and remain close inshore. However, the location is not positively identified, as the sheer cliffs with the scree slopes are very similar to the coastline off Cape Prescott. Moreover, the nature of the ice is wrong from the official description and the one by A. H. Markham in that it is not up to 20 feet high and closely packed.