William Robert Hobson (1831-1880)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1986
• Subjects: Biographies; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Hobson; William Robert; 1831-1880; Search for Franklin; Cairns; Bellot Strait region; Nunavut; Boothia Peninsula; Chamisso Island; Alaska; Herschel; Cape; King William Island; Terror Bay; Felix; region; Arctic; Bellot Strait; Bering Strait; Cairn; Cape Felix; Cape Herschel; Cape King; Erebus; Herschel Cape; McClintock; Pelly Bay; Port Kennedy; Rae; Simpson Strait; William Island; Barrow; inuit; Point Barrow; Seward Peninsula
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65122

In April 1854 Dr. John Rae heard from Inuit at Pelly Bay an account of the last fateful days of Franklin's expedition, missing somewhere to the west for a number of years. . When his report of his discovery reached England, Lady Jane Franklin mounted a private expedition . to search for relics...