William Penny (1809-1892)
To William Penny belongs the distinction of undertaking the first maritime search for the ships of Sir John Franklin. . One of Penny's concerns was that the arctic regions north of Canada, which were ostensibly British on the basis of many discovery expeditions since Frobisher's in 1576, m...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65350 2023-05-15T14:19:16+02:00 William Penny (1809-1892) Ross, W. Gillies 1983-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65350 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65350/49264 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65350 ARCTIC; Vol. 36 No. 4 (1983): December: 311–395; 380-381 1923-1245 0004-0843 Biographies Culture (Anthropology) Expeditions Explorers History Inuit Moravians Penny William 1809-1892 Search for Franklin Social change Whaling Baffin Bay-Davis Strait Baffin Island Nunavut Cumberland Sound region Cumberland Sound Greenland Sea Lancaster Sound info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1983 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:25Z To William Penny belongs the distinction of undertaking the first maritime search for the ships of Sir John Franklin. . One of Penny's concerns was that the arctic regions north of Canada, which were ostensibly British on the basis of many discovery expeditions since Frobisher's in 1576, might fall to the United States if Britain failed to exert her authority there. [He applied for a land grant in 1852 to forestall the plans of American whaling interests to establish bases on Baffin Island. Unfortunately, this was denied.] . By expanding the frontier of the Davis Strait whale fishery, by developing the technique of wintering on board whaleships, by pointing the way into Lancaster Sound for subsequent Franklin searches, and by initiating the first missionary presence on Baffin Island, William Penny influenced the course of Euro-American activity in the eastern Arctic during the nineteenth century. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Island Baffin Cumberland Sound Davis Strait Greenland Greenland Sea inuit Lancaster Sound Nunavut University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Baffin Bay Baffin Island Canada Cumberland Sound ENVELOPE(-66.014,-66.014,65.334,65.334) Greenland Lancaster Sound ENVELOPE(-83.999,-83.999,74.218,74.218) Nunavut ARCTIC 36 4 |
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To William Penny belongs the distinction of undertaking the first maritime search for the ships of Sir John Franklin. . One of Penny's concerns was that the arctic regions north of Canada, which were ostensibly British on the basis of many discovery expeditions since Frobisher's in 1576, might fall to the United States if Britain failed to exert her authority there. [He applied for a land grant in 1852 to forestall the plans of American whaling interests to establish bases on Baffin Island. Unfortunately, this was denied.] . By expanding the frontier of the Davis Strait whale fishery, by developing the technique of wintering on board whaleships, by pointing the way into Lancaster Sound for subsequent Franklin searches, and by initiating the first missionary presence on Baffin Island, William Penny influenced the course of Euro-American activity in the eastern Arctic during the nineteenth century. |
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