Edwin Jesse De Haven: the first US Arctic explorer

ABSTRACT Edwin Jesse De Haven (1816–1865) led the first Grinnell expedition in search of the lost British explorer Sir John Franklin in 1850–1851. Since it was the ship's charismatic surgeon, Elisha Kent Kane, who wrote the popular account of the voyage, De Haven's achievements have genera...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Cruwys, Liz
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1992
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Kane
Peacock
Antarc*
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400020660
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400020660
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Summary:ABSTRACT Edwin Jesse De Haven (1816–1865) led the first Grinnell expedition in search of the lost British explorer Sir John Franklin in 1850–1851. Since it was the ship's charismatic surgeon, Elisha Kent Kane, who wrote the popular account of the voyage, De Haven's achievements have generally been overlooked. De Haven joined the United States Navy when he was 13 and was master on the ill-fated Peacock during the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842) to the Antarctic under Charles Wilkes. He saw action in the Mexican War in 1848, and was serving under Matthew Fontaine Maury at the Naval Observatory when he was chosen to take command of the first United States Franklin search expedition. He retired from the navy at the age of 46 and died three years later.

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