Whitehall Mystery
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The Whitehall Mystery is an unsolved murder that took place in London in 1888. The dismembered remains of a woman were discovered at three sites in the centre of the city, including the construction s
Contemporary newspaper illustration of the Whitehall Mystery, depicting the discovery of the victim's torso
1837 illustration of the premises occupied by the Metropolitan Police
Jack the Ripper 1888
Spitsbergen
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Spitsbergen is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway in the Arctic Ocean.
Whitehall Mystery
…string. The torso was matched by police surgeon Thomas Bond to the previously found arm and shoulder. On 17 October 1888, reporter Jasper Waring used a Spitsbergen dog, with the permission of the police and the help of a labourer, to find a left leg cut above the knee that was buried near the construction site…
Dutch whalers near Spitsbergen by Abraham Storck (1690)
A 1906 photograph of the Norwegian whaling factory ship Bucentaur in Bellsund, Spitsbergen
Hornsund Polish Arctic Station, photographed in 2003
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