The 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole was a Royal Navy expedition suggested by the Royal Society and especially its vice president Daines Barrington, who believed in an ice-free Open Polar
HMS Racehorse and HMS Carcass stuck in the ice on 7 August 1773
Portrait of Phipps by Ozias Humphry
Original plans for HMS Carcass, 1758
Charles Irving's apparatus for distilling seawater
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The ivory gull is a small gull, the only species in the genus Pagophila. It is a resident breeding bird in the high Arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through Greenland, northernmost North Amer
1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole
…stuck in ice near Svalbard. The report of the journey, published by Phipps in 1774, contained the first scientific descriptions of the polar bear, ivory gull, and naked sea butterfly. In January 1773, on the initiative of the Royal Society's vice president Daines Barrington, the Society's Secretary, Matthew…
Pagophila eburnea 4
First-winter plumage
Second-winter plumage
Adult in flight