Franklin in Siberia? - Lieutenant Bedford Pim's Proposal to Search the Arctic Coast of Siberia, 1851-52

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1992
• Subjects: History; Pim; Bedford; b. 1826; Search for Franklin; Beechey Island; Nunavut; Canadian Arctic Islands waters; Sibir'; Russian Federation; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Strait; Kolyma; Sibir’; Wellington Channel; Arctique*; banquise; Chukotka; Détroit de Béring; Open Polar Sea; Sea ice; Siberia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64426

Like many of his contemporaries, Lieutenant Bedford Pim, of the Royal Navy, believed in the existence of an "open polar sea" beyond a zone of coastal ice around the margins of the Arctic Ocean. On the basis of this, in fall 1951 he postulated that Sir John Franklin's expedition had sa...