Hand-colored print depicting the inhabitants of the Arctic zone, including three people representing indigenous northerners, dressed in furs; many seabirds; a reindeer and a polar bear; a walrus; two spouting whales; a narwhal; a carpenter shark or sawfish; and a baby seal, about to be struck by a spear. In lower margin the publisher information is printed, as well as the following text:
"The Zones of the Earth. Plate No.1. Productions of the North Frigid Zone.