A very distant view of 'Alert' (1856) in Winter Quarters at Floeberg Beach' on the north coast of Ellesmere Island, taken from the south west looking towards Cape Rawson in the distance. The photograph clearly shows the deep line of grounded floe bergs to the left of 'Alert', and the smooth ice from there to the shore. It was this protective barrier of ice that meant 'Alert' was safe through the winter months and into the next year. The evidence of rocks in the foreground suggests that this is either prior to the winter of 1875, or it is just at the beginning of the thaw in late May and aerly June 1876.