Richard King (1810-1876)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Wallace, Hugh N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Biographies; Expeditions; Exploration; Explorers; History; Traditional knowledge; Inuit; King; Richard; 1810-1876; Mapping; Search for Franklin; Topography; Back River; Nunavut; Canadian Arctic; Canadian Arctic Islands; Northwest Passage; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; King William Island; Queen Maud Gulf; William Island; inuit; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64846

Dr. Richard King was an explorer, geographer, and ethnologist who commented discerningly upon much that happened in arctic exploration in the period 1833-1869. The Cassandra of this period, he prophesied accurately a good deal of the arctic map and of arctic happenings without, however, gaining publ...