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Throwback Thursday: 2001 Arctic Land Expedition

  • Oct 01, 2014
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Back in 2001, photographer Paul vanPeenen retraced the steps of midshipman and artist George Back, who joined Sir John Franklin’s first expedition to the Arctic Ocean in 1819. Read this brief story on how vanPeenan’s images captured the past.

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