The Discovery of the North-West Passage by HMS Investigator, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854

• Main Author: McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier
• Other Authors: Osborn, Sherard
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Pacific; Osborn; North West Passage
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139565257

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the North-West Passage, a trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, had been sought for centuries without success. The Franklin expedition of 1845 became the latest victim, and Irish naval officer Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure (1807–73) took part in...