ARCTIC Retreat from Boothia: The Original Diary of James Clark Ross, May to October 18:

• Main Authors: Rear Admiral, James Ross, James M. Savelle
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Arctic; Fury Beach; Lord Mayor Bay; Port Leopold; Somerset Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.540.8142; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic45-2-179.pdf

ABSTRACT. Following the abandonment of John Ross’s expedition ship Victory in Lord Mayor Bay in 1832, Ross’s nephew and second-in-c mand, James Clark Ross, led a separate forward sledging group for much of the retreat to Somerset Island. While John Ross described the even1 his own sledging group in his published narrative, he provided essentially no information on James Clark Ross’s group. Recently, the journal kep James Clark Ross during the retreat was located, and it forms the subject of this article. The journal covers the period from 4 May to 14 Octc 1832, during which the Victory was abandoned, an attempt (eventually aborted) made to escape using sledges and boats via Port Leopold, and Pr’ rations made to spend the winter of 1832-33 at Fury Beach.