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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 51495

"View of the Antarctic Continent"


Line engraving by Jorban & Halpin, after a sketch by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, USN, depicting men and dogs of the U.S. Exploring Expedition "ashore" on the ice, with the Antarctic mountains in the distance, circa January-February 1840. USS Vincennes is amid the ice flows at right.
The print is copied from "U.S. Exploring Expedition", Volume II.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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22 November 2002