'The Great Humboldt Glacier, Peabody Bay', 1855, (1928). Artist: Elisha Kent Kane.


'The Great Humboldt Glacier, Peabody Bay', 1855, (1928). A sketch by Doctor Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857) a member of the second Grinnell Expedition of 1853, an American expedition financed by Henry Grinnell, to determine the fate of the Franklin's lost expedition. From The Book of Polar Exploration, by E. L. Elias [George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London, 1928]


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