However, naval personnel and topographers, among them Thomas Mitchell, did succeed in documenting, by photograph, the Northern indigenous peoples and landscapes of what would become Canada's Northwest Territories and, later, Nunavut.
Marinpersonalen och topograferna, bland andra Thomas Mitchell, lyckades genom fotografier dokumentera den nordliga ursprungsbefolkningen och de landskap som senare skulle bli Northwest Territories och Nunavut i Kanada.