‘The last duty of an officer’: Lieutenant de vaisseau Joseph-René Bellot, 1826–1853, in the Franklin Search

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Barr, William, Forestier-Blazart, Nadine, Forestier-Blazart, Jean-Claude
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Northwest Passage; Greenwich; Prince of Wales Island; Belcher; Somerset Island; Boothia Peninsula; Peel Sound; Beechey Island; Wellington Channel; Bellot Strait; Ommanney; Cape Walker; Batty Bay; Ommanney Bay; Northwest passage; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247412000630; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247412000630

ABSTRACT Lieutenant de vaisseau Joseph René Bellot, (1826–1853) participated, as second-in command, in Lady Franklin's private expedition in search of her missing husband on board Prince Albert , under the command of Captain William Kennedy in 1851–1852. Having wintered at Batty Bay on the east...