The Original Diary of 1830

ABSTRACT. During John Ross’s arctic expedition of 1829-33 in search of a northwest passage, approximately 1000 km of new coastline was mapped. Included in these new coastlines was Lord Mayor Bay on eastern Boothia Peninsula, which was surveyed by Ross’s nephew and second-in-command, James Clark Ross...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rear Admiral, James Ross, James M. Savelle
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1989
Subjects:
Arctic
Boothia Peninsula
Foxe Basin
Hudson
Hudson Bay
Lord Mayor Bay
Northwest Passage
Somerset Island
Northwest passage
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.539.3056
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic43-1-66.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT. During John Ross’s arctic expedition of 1829-33 in search of a northwest passage, approximately 1000 km of new coastline was mapped. Included in these new coastlines was Lord Mayor Bay on eastern Boothia Peninsula, which was surveyed by Ross’s nephew and second-in-command, James Clark Ross, in 1830. The results of the Lord Mayor Bay survey effectively ended any chance of there being a northwest passage south and east of Somerset Island or west of northern Foxe Basin and northwest Hudson Bay. Despite the obvious importance of James Clark Ross’s survey, it was not included in John Ross’s published narrative of the expedition. The original diary has recently been located and is reproduced here, together with accompanying sketches and observations and a discussion of the circumstances of the survey.

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