Cleaning batteries on the ice. The forge is in the background. One of the pictures from the expedition with arctic ship toward the North Pole in the period June 24, 1893 to August 13, 1896. According to the plan, the ship was to drift in the ice with the ocean current from the coast of Siberia across the North Pole to Greenland.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4422456" class="extiw" title="d:Q4422456"><span title="Norwegian naval officer and polar explorer">Sigurd Scott Hansen</span></a>
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:National_Library_of_Norway" class="extiw" title="w:en:National Library of Norway"><span title="national library">National Library of Norway</span></a>
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