Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10826

    Frozen Tornoe waterfall, Jan Mayen

    Date
    1882-1883
    Creator
    Richard Basso (Austrian) , Photographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    R65125
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 146mm
    width (print): 187mm
    height (mount): 325mm
    width (mount): 453mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
    nature
       > waterfall
    Description
    Landscape view of the 40-meter high Tornoe waterfall, frozen, on Jan Mayen. With a human figure holding a staff at the foot of the solidified fall. Image from the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition on Jan Mayen the volcanic island of Norway. The expedition was part of the first International Polar Year, 1882-1883.

    Plate 16 from the portfolio Photographische Aufnahmen von der Insel Jan Mayen; Oesterreichischen Polar-Expedition, 1882-1883 (Wien, 1884). Original photographs are credited to Linienschiffs-Lieutenant Richard Basso.

    Inscribed left: ‘Graf Wilcz-ek’sche Polar-Expedition 1882/83’; and right ‘Linienschiffslieutenant Basso phg.’ Below, the main title: ‘Jan Mayen. Der erstarrte Tornoe-Wasserfall. (40 Meter hoch).’
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Norway
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