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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