Corvette La Recherche near Bear Island, on 7 August 1838.
A. Mayer, from Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Feröe (Travels to Scandinavia, Lapland, Spitsbergen and the Faroe Islands), under the direction of Paul Gaimard, volume of plates, Paris, 1852.
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((there was a place called Bear Island…))
Bear Island…