After whom is herschel island named?
Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk) is a seasonally inhabited island off the western Arctic coast of Canada. It was designated as a Yukon territorial park under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (1987) in recognition of its physical and cultural significance. The island was named by Captain John Franklin of t...
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ftcarletonunivir:oai:carleton.ca:4561 2023-05-15T14:21:37+02:00 After whom is herschel island named? Burn, C. (Christopher R.) 2009-09-01 https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/4561 https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic152 en eng https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/4561 doi:10.14430/arctic152 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Arctic vol. 62 no. 3, pp. 317-323 Caroline herschel Herschel island John franklin John herschel William herschel Yukon territory info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2009 ftcarletonunivir https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic152 2022-02-06T21:51:51Z Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk) is a seasonally inhabited island off the western Arctic coast of Canada. It was designated as a Yukon territorial park under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (1987) in recognition of its physical and cultural significance. The island was named by Captain John Franklin of the Royal Navy on 15 July 1826, during his second voyage of Arctic exploration. Unlike entries for other features named by Franklin along this coast, the journal record of this event does not indicate the specific person after whom he named the island. Franklin's journal and his published account state only that he wished to honour the name Herschel, borne most prominently by Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus, Sir William's sister Caroline Herschel, who discovered eight comets, and Sir William's son Sir John Herschel, the brilliant polymath; in other words, he wished to honour this preeminent late Georgian scientific family. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Herschel Herschel Island Inuvialuit Yukon Carleton University's Institutional Repository Arctic Yukon Canada Herschel Island ENVELOPE(-139.089,-139.089,69.583,69.583) ARCTIC 62 3 |
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Herschel Island (Qikiqtaruk) is a seasonally inhabited island off the western Arctic coast of Canada. It was designated as a Yukon territorial park under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (1987) in recognition of its physical and cultural significance. The island was named by Captain John Franklin of the Royal Navy on 15 July 1826, during his second voyage of Arctic exploration. Unlike entries for other features named by Franklin along this coast, the journal record of this event does not indicate the specific person after whom he named the island. Franklin's journal and his published account state only that he wished to honour the name Herschel, borne most prominently by Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus, Sir William's sister Caroline Herschel, who discovered eight comets, and Sir William's son Sir John Herschel, the brilliant polymath; in other words, he wished to honour this preeminent late Georgian scientific family. |
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