VIII. On hourly observations of the magnetic declination, made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R. N., and the officers of H. M. ship ‘Plover,’ in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at point barrow, on the shores of the Polar Sea

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1857
• Subjects: Mackenzie River; Pacific; Maguire; Mackenzie river; Point Barrow
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1856.0161; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspl.1856.0161

Point Barrow is the most northern cape of that part of the American continent which lies between Behring Strait and the Mackenzie River. It was the station, from the summer of 1852 to the summer of 1854, of H. M. S. ‘Plover,’ furnished with supplies of provisions, &c. for Sir John Franklin’s shi...