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Photo # NH 92142:  DeLong's party landing on the northern end of the Lena River Delta, 17 September 1881

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1880s --

Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881 --
Jeannette's Men in the Lena River Delta


This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have related to the last stage of the Jeannette Expedition, after the ship's survivors landed in Siberia's Lena River Delta in September 1881.

For more pictures of this subject, see:

  • -- Jeannette's Men in the Lena River Delta (Part II).

    For a textual overview and selected images concerning the entire Jeannette Expedition, and links to comprehensive coverage of our pictorial holdings on its other aspects, see:

  • Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 92142

    Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


    Woodcut engraved by George T. Andrew after a design by M.J. Burns, depicting Lieutenant Commander George DeLong and his party wading ashore from USS Jeannette's first cutter, on the north end of the Lena River Delta, Siberia, 17 September 1881.
    Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 759, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 163KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92148

    Lena River Delta, Siberia


    Facsimile of the Lena Delta map that Lieutenant Commander George DeLong had available for use during the Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition of 1879-1881. Its many omissions and inaccuracies were probably instrumental in the loss of his men, who landed at the head of the delta in September 1881 and died of starvation during the following two months.
    Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 824, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 92143

    Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


    Woodcut engraved by George T. Andrew after a design by M.J. Burns, depicting Seamen William F.C. Nindemann and Louis P. Noros trudging through the snowy Siberian wastes in search of help for Lieutenant Commander George DeLong's party, October 1881.
    Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 793, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 101KB; 415 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92144

    Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


    Facsimile of the next-to-last page of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong's journal, covering 21-24 October 1881, as his party was dying of starvation at the head of the Lena River Delta, Siberia. Numbered days reflect the time since USS Jeannette was abandoned in the ice north of Siberia.
    Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 798, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 500 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92145

    Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


    Facsimile of the last page of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong's journal, covering 25-30 October 1881, as his party was dying of starvation at the head of the Lena River Delta, Siberia. Numbered days reflect the time since USS Jeannette was abandoned in the ice north of Siberia.
    Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 799, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 560 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92146

    Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


    Vignette engraving of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong's notebooks and map, found at the campsite at the head of the Lena River Delta, Siberia, where his men had died of starvation during October-November 1881.
    Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 800, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 400 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 1930

    H.H. Erichsen
    (18__-1881)

    Rough wooden memorial plate with date 6 October 1881.
    He was a member of the Jeannette Arctic exploration expedition, who died after two boats from the ship had reached the Lena Delta, Siberia.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 360 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92152

    "Plan of the Last Camp, Showing the Position in which the Bodies were Found."


    Plan of the final camp of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong and his men from the Arctic exploration ship Jeannette, in the Lena River Delta, Siberia. All members of the party perished there in October-November 1881. Their bodies were found the following March.
    Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 854, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 325 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92153

    "Finding the Bodies of Captain De Long and his Companions."


    Chief Engineer George Melville discovers the bodies of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong, Passed Assistant Surgeon James M. Ambler and Seaman Ah Sam, in the Lena River Delta, Siberia, on 23 March 1882. The three men had died in October or early November 1881.
    Woodcut engraved by George T. Andrew after a design by Captain Gronbeck, copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 857, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 126KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92154

    "Monument Hill, Lena Delta."


    Where the remains of Jeannette expedition leader Lieutenant Commander George DeLong and his men were laid to rest, after their bodies were discovered in March 1882. This high ground, marked by a cross, was near where they had perished in October-November 1881.
    Engraving copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, page 869, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    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.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     

    For more pictures of this subject, see:

  • -- Jeannette's Men in the Lena River Delta (Part II).

    For a textual overview and selected images concerning the entire Jeannette Expedition, and links to comprehensive coverage of our pictorial holdings on its other aspects, see:

  • Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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