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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 92152 "Plan of the Last Camp, Showing the Position in which the Bodies were Found." Plan of the final camp of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong and his men from the Arctic exploration ship Jeannette, in the Lena River Delta, Siberia. All members of the party perished there in October-November 1881. Their bodies were found the following March. Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 854, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 325 pixels

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29 August 2003