The freshwater dam that has developed near the ship. In the background two members of the crew in a small rowboat on the look-out for whale that had been seen there. 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.