Visions of an Arctic that looks a little different now taken from Bernard O’Reilly’s work “Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis’s strait, during the summer of 1817” with the illustrations made from drawings by the author. Published in 1818 in London. In the collections of the State Library of Alaska and the Library of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Views of Greenland after passing Cape Farewell: Views of Land near Joris Bay (upper image); Land near Baal’s River (center image); Reep Kolle? (not legible, lower image). Page 42. Plate I. Engraving after a drawing by Bernard O’Reilly. Collections of the State Library of Alaska. In the public domain due to age. via https://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/docs/asl_G650_1817_06.pdf
Disko at Fortune Bay with Cirrus Radiation. Plate 3, Page 63. Collections of and digitalized by the Library of the Marine Biological Library and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n63/mode/1up
Disko near Lievely with Parhelion. Plate IV, Page 67. Collections of and digitalized by the Library of the Marine Biological Library and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In the public domain due to age https://archive.org/details/greenlandadjacen00orei/page/n67/mode/1up

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