Warburton Pike (1861-1915)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Cockburn, R.H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
• Subjects: Biographies; Canoeing; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Hunting; Pike; Warburton; 1861-1915; Travels; Starvation; Aylmer Lake; N.W.T; Back River; Nunavut; Bering Sea; Dease River; N.W.T./Nunavut; Fort Resolution region; Pelly River; Yukon; Stikine River; Alaska/British Columbia; Beechey Lake; British Columbia; Canada; Cassiar; Dease Lake; Fort Resolution; Great Slave Lake; Lac de Gras; Liard; Lockhart; Lockhart River; Lower Post; Mackay; Mountain Portage; Rocky Mountain Portage; Stikine; Arctic; eskimo*; musk ox; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65179

. August 1889 found Pike embarking by canoe from Fort Resolution on what he called "an ordinary shooting expedition" north of Great Slave Lake, where he hoped to "penetrate this unknown land, to see the musk-ox, and find out as much as I could about their habits, and the habits of the...