Elisha Kent Kane
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He was senior medical officer in the First Grinnell expedition to rescue or discover the fate of the explorer Sir John Franklin. He was credited with the discovery of an encampment and gravesite from Franklin's lost expedition on Beechey Island. He led the Second Grinnell expedition to the Arctic which was unsuccessful in discovering the fate of Franklin's expedition. His explorations of the Arctic went further North than any other expeditions at the time and led to the eventual path to the North Pole taken by subsequent explorers.
He spoke frequently to large audiences about his Arctic expeditions. He published two books chronicling his explorations; ''The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative'' in 1856 and ''Arctic explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853,'54, '55'' in 1857. Two United States Navy ships, a lunar crater and a waterway in the Arctic were named in his honor. Provided by Wikipedia
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