Additional documents and survey on the Franklin sites of Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada: addendum

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Hansen, Todd
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2011
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Nunavut; Canada; Kane; Bray; Osborn; Beechey Island; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224741100012x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224741100012X

In addition to the visits to Beechey Island referenced in my recent article (Hansen 2010), M'Dougall also describes his visit to Beechey Island (in Resolute with De Bray) from Tuesday 10 August 1852 (mistakenly given as 11 August) to Sunday, 15 August (M'Dougall 1857: 78–87). He gives his version of the inscriptions of the three Franklin expedition headboards. While he follows the mistaken placement order as in Osborn and The Illustrated London News of 4 October 1851 (Osborn 1865: 90; The Illustrated London News 1851b), comparison of the inscriptions with both Kane (Kane 1854: 163) and the photo of the Torrington headboard in Powell (Powell 2006: 330, Fig. 10) now lead me to conclude that M'Dougall's rather than Kane's version of the Franklin headboards inscriptions are probably the most accurate of the contemporary accounts.