Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage
Polar explorer John Ross (1777–1856) sailed with William Edward Parry in 1818 to seek a North-West Passage from Baffin Bay. The attempt was unsuccessful, and Ross was widely blamed for its failure. In 1829, he set out on a privately funded expedition on the steamship Victory, accompanied by his neph...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781139236683 2024-03-03T08:42:01+00:00 Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage And of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829–33 Ross, John 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139236683 unknown Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9781108050210 9781139236683 monograph 2012 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139236683 2024-02-08T08:37:07Z Polar explorer John Ross (1777–1856) sailed with William Edward Parry in 1818 to seek a North-West Passage from Baffin Bay. The attempt was unsuccessful, and Ross was widely blamed for its failure. In 1829, he set out on a privately funded expedition on the steamship Victory, accompanied by his nephew James Clark Ross, to try again, returning to England in late 1833. Using survival techniques learnt from the Inuit he befriended, Ross kept his crew healthy through four icebound winters. While the voyage once again failed to find a North-West Passage, it surveyed the Boothia Peninsula and a large part of King William Land. It was also valuable for its scientific findings, with J. C. Ross discovering the magnetic pole. Ross published this two-volume work in 1835. Volume 2 contains scientific reports, ethnological information on the Inuit, an Eskimo vocabulary and comments on natural history. Book Arctic Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Boothia Peninsula eskimo* inuit North West Passage Cambridge University Press Arctic Baffin Bay Parry ENVELOPE(-62.417,-62.417,-64.283,-64.283) Boothia Peninsula ENVELOPE(-94.000,-94.000,71.001,71.001) Cambridge |
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Polar explorer John Ross (1777–1856) sailed with William Edward Parry in 1818 to seek a North-West Passage from Baffin Bay. The attempt was unsuccessful, and Ross was widely blamed for its failure. In 1829, he set out on a privately funded expedition on the steamship Victory, accompanied by his nephew James Clark Ross, to try again, returning to England in late 1833. Using survival techniques learnt from the Inuit he befriended, Ross kept his crew healthy through four icebound winters. While the voyage once again failed to find a North-West Passage, it surveyed the Boothia Peninsula and a large part of King William Land. It was also valuable for its scientific findings, with J. C. Ross discovering the magnetic pole. Ross published this two-volume work in 1835. Volume 2 contains scientific reports, ethnological information on the Inuit, an Eskimo vocabulary and comments on natural history. |
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