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Photo #: NH 92122

Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


Cairn tomb on Monument Hill, Lena Delta, Siberia, where the bodies of Lieutenant Commander George W. DeLong, USN, the expedition commander, and those who perished with him were laid to rest in 1882.
Tinted lithograph after a drawing by A. Larsen, copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, Frontispiece, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

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3 July 2003