Though unable to navigate its full length, in 1846 Sir John Franklin found this long-sought route
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NOVA | Arctic Passage | Tracing the Routes (printable) | PBS  (printable) In this annotated map, compare the presumed route of the failed Franklin ... Their routes through the Arctic in search of a northwest sea passage were ... Though Sir John Franklin was a celebrated English explorer with decades of ... and a tiny crew, charted the long-sought Northwest Passage with relative ease.
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John Franklin's lost expedition - Wikipedia  Franklin's lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John ... Sir John Barrow promoted Arctic voyages of discovery during his long tenure as ... Finally, two years later, the HMS Terror wreck was found south of King ... the expedition in the years following its last sighting by Europeans in 1845.
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The Arctic and More - Library and Archives Canada  Jan 5, 2016 ... They entrusted this expedition to John Ross, with William Edward Parry as first mate. ... Unable to reach Lancaster Sound because of ice, they returned to the Fury. ... concerned with the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition to the Arctic. ... through which the sea route to the west would have to be sought.
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John Franklin - encyclopedia article - Citizendium  Oct 18, 2013 ... Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin FRGS (April 15, 1786 - June 11, 1847) ... to chart and navigate the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. ... to search for the long-sought (but ultimately chimerical) Open Polar Sea. .... The remainder of their route can be reconstructed from the evidence found years later;...
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Northwest Passage - Wikipedia  The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ... Many ended in disaster, including that by Sir John Franklin in 1845. ... Five to seven routes have been taken through the Canadian Arctic ... The largest ship to navigate the Northwest Passage was the cruise liner Crystal Serenity of...
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Example Questions - Elgin Local Schools  (10) Between 1801 and 1803, Matthew Flinders became the first person to circumnavigate which country? Ans. Australia. 7. (10) The lower half of the fleshy...
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The Discovery of Van Diemen's Land in 1642  In the 16th and 17th centuries the persistent policy of the Dutch was to conceal the ... the Western Coast of Australia had been several times sighted by Dutch Captains. ... still unsolved, he had made the first complete circumnavigation of Australia and New Guinea. ... [(2) By the voyage of Brouwer round Cape Horn in 1643. ].
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Sir John Richardson on Sir John Franklin - Britannica.com  When British exploration of the Arctic was at its peak during the first half of the 19th ... 1801, young Franklin had the honour of serving in Nelson's hardest fought action. ... there was no opportunity on board a ship of war of remedying the defect. ... In the ill-managed and disastrous attack on New Orleans, he commanded the...
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Northwest Passage - Wikipedia  The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ... Explorers thought that an open water route close to the North Pole must exist. ... Many ended in disaster, including that by Sir John Franklin in 1845. ... early exploration attempts, expeditions entered the passage from the Atlantic...
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Explorers of the Nile  The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great ...  Dec 11, 2011 ... Nero dispatched two centurions to try to find the source. ... were ready to submit to any hardship in pursuit of the river's source, and ... Speke was right, Burton wrong, but it was Burton who won fame, ... When Livingstone finally died, soon after noting that the pleasures of exploration had their limits, his...
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Second Grinnell Expedition - Wikipedia  The Second Grinnell Expedition of 1853 was an American effort, financed by Henry Grinnell, to determine the fate of the Franklin's lost expedition. Led by Dr. Elisha Kane, the team explored areas northwest of Greenland, now called Grinnell Land. While failing to determine the fate of Sir John Franklin, the expedition set a ... On June 3 McGary and Morton set out on coastal expeditions along the...
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John Franklin - Wikipedia  Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS RN (16 April 1786  11 June 1847) was an English .... The British decided to send a well-equipped Arctic expedition to complete the ... Terror and Erebus became trapped in ice off King William Island in .... Franklin Street, in the city centre of Adelaide, South Australia, is named after...
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Image of VERNE: 20,000 LEAGUES, 1870. 'The Nautilus In Danger ...  VERNE: 20,000 LEAGUES, 1870. 'The Nautilus in danger.' The 'Nautilus' aground in the Torres Straits. Engraving after a drawing by Alphonse de Neuville from...
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December 5, 2008  The "walking" type of this fish, the Clarias batrachus, can travel across dry land in search of water ... John Speke;Speke Franklin, Ben Franklin: In October 1723 Franklin arrived in this city that would be his home base for the rest of his life...
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To the Victoria Falls - David Livingstone  To the Victoria Falls - Discovery of the Victoria Falls - David Livingstone. ... 'A long delay at the Cape gave Livingstone an insight into Missionary work which he never forgot. .... David Livingstone followed the Zambezi River to its mouth in the Indian .... When he 'discovered' the Falls in 1855, David Livingstone was seeking to...
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Full text of "The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques ...  The dates, with the exception of those giving the births and deaths of the principal .... He planned his voyage to America because he believed that no such country ...... Lane, who was left in charge, spent his time in gold-seeking and organising .... He brought back to England a handsome profit for those who had financed his...
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HISTORY OF PORTUGAL  Returning in 1420, the navigator (Joo Gonalves Zarco) finds the island ... for ships on the long curving ocean route between Europe and the Cape of Good Hope. ... Many and varied motives lie behind Prince Henry's African expeditions. ... by the sailors is well suggested by the long struggle to get round Cape Bojador - a...
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Ferdinand Magellan - Wikipedia  Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian ('Spanish') .... Monopoly of the discovered route for a period of ten years. ... Afterwards, they continued to sail south along South America's east coast, looking for the strait that Magellan believed ... The strait is now named the Strait of Magellan.
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HENRY MORTON STANLEY  EXPLORATION AND MAPPING OF ...  Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), one of the world's most famous explorers, had a ... The Congo River with its length of course of about 4,700 km is one of the ... American expedition, in which he travelled the whole of the course of the river; .... for which Stanley worked as a correspondent and the British Daily Telegraph,.
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Full text of "Fate of Sir John Franklin : the voyage of the 'Fox' in the ...  Full text of "Fate of Sir John Franklin : the voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic seas in ... to reckon as time served by a captain in command of one of Her Majesty's ships, ... To the honour of the British nation, and also, let it be said, to that of the ..... com- manding the boats from that ship in the attack upon New Orleans, when he...
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THE SEARCH FOR SOMETHING  "Then ye'll have to jog along behind the ship until we stop next and ye can hop .... Captain Scar dug his feet into the roof rack and delved his existing hand into his ..... Also, where the Land Pirates' ship had merely had sails, the Sky Pirates' ..... to wear on his shoulder, but he hadn't been prepared to shell out the price most...