[Four optical illusion drawings].
Pen and ink drawings showing four different coastal features in the Arctic distorted by the refraction that occurs at low temperatures. See the account of the observations made at Port Bowen in Captain W.E. Parry's journal of his third voyage to find the North-West Passage.
Record Details
| Item reference: | CMP/47/3/7; N1988-7(H) HED01/25 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Date made: | circa 1821; circa 1823 circa 1824 1821-04-25 1821-04-26 1821-05-18 1821-07-14 1821-11-20 circa 1821-1823 1821-1825 1823-04-02 1823-08-22 circa 1824-1825 |
| Creator: | Head, Horatio Nelson |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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