William Penny (1809-1892)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Ross, W. Gillies
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: 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; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Canada; Greenland; Baffin; Davis Strait; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65350

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...