'Expedition doubling Cape Barrow, July 25 1821' Edward Francis Finden
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'Expedition doubling Cape Barrow, July 25 1821'
Landscape view of three canoes sailing round 'Cape Barrow' on 25 July 1821; named as such by John Franklin after "Mr. [John] Barrow of the Admiralty, to whose exertions are mainly owing the discoveries recently made in Arctic geography". Referred to be the indigenous Inuit, Inuk, population as Haninnek.
Illustration from Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin (London, 1823).
John Franklin (1786-1847) British Naval officer and exporer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1823. In 1819 he was chosen to lead the Coppermine Expedition overland from Hudson Bay to chart the North Coast of Canada.
John Barrow (1764 -1848) British civil servant and geographer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1805, and was involved in the British colonisation of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1796.
- Image reference: RS-9320
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