View from Mount Cartinel looking southwest towards Bellot Island and and its summit Mount Campbell, Discovery Bay, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay).<br><p>Nares wrote: ‘Finding the harbour was suitable in every way for winter quarters, and the abundance of spare arctic vegetation in the neighbourhood giving every promise of game being procurable, I decided to leave the Discovery and push forward with the Alert alone’.  
</p><p>From this base in Discovery Harbour, the officers and men were sent on specific surveying and scientific journeys, of which Plate 64 is one. ‘The mile’, a series of ice pillars with rope handrails, was constructed to allow the men to exercise without getting lost during the winter months.<br></p>
Winter quarters, HMS 'Discovery' from the hills abreast the ship
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Thomas Mitchell</div>
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