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The Ice Islands, seen the 9th of Jan. 1773

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Print shows James Cook's ship at anchor off huge iceberg; men in small boat in foreground gathering blocks of ice.

Double page engraving by B.T. Pouncy and W. Watts. Drawn from nature by W. Hodges.

Illus. in: James Cook, a Voyage towards the South Pole and round the world. London : W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777, v. 1.

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Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Disc. & Expl.; Antarctic region; Geogr.; Ice.

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01/01/1777
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