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A number of polar explorers visited
- While searching for the Northwest Passage, a number of polar explorers visited, or spent their winters on, King William Island.
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Jun 23, 2023 · When the wreck of the HMS Terror was discovered off the coast of King William Island, Nunavut, in 2016, it had been missing for 168 years.
By late autumn, Amundsen had put the Gjoa in a natural harbour on King William Island – Gjoa Haven, as he called it – and let her freeze there for the winter, but while his time in Gjoa Haven, Amundsen had cultivated with the Netsilik Inuit. He wanted to learn the art of survival in such harsh climate, and in return Amundsen would showcase ...
Oct 20, 2023 · In spring, the ships sailed south down Peel Sound, but were soon trapped again by ice near King William Island near the McClintock Channel. In spring 1847, a group of crew members travelled across the ice to Point Victory and left a written record of their expedition.
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Jul 11, 2023 · On the trail of a doomed 19th century polar expedition, modern explorers met the same danger: devastating, unpredictable sea ice. Mark Synnott poses for a portrait aboard his sailboat, Polar...
Oct 5, 2023 · Pilot was obsessed with finding not Franklin’s ships but rather his grave, which he believed was located on King William Island. Like Louie Kamookak and Tom Gross, he regarded this quest as “the true Franklin search.”
Rae Strait between King William Island and the Boothia peninsula, and named after John Rae, who discovered the potential of this stretch of water that was the last link in the NW passage. John Rae, an Orkney man who joined the Hudson Bay company, is one of the greatest polar explorers.
Two expeditions between 1860 and 1869 by Charles Francis Hall, who lived among the Inuit near Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island and later at Repulse Bay on the Canadian mainland, found camps, graves and relics on the southern coast of King William Island, but he believed none of the Franklin survivors would be found among the Inuit.
