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2. Lady Franklin Bay Expedition - Wikipedia

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   Proteus arrived without problems at Lady Franklin Bay by August 11, dropped off men and provisions, and left. [5] In the following months, Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood and Sergeant David Legge Brainard achieved a new Farthest North record at 83°24′N 40°46′W  /  83.400°N 40.767°W  / 83.400; -40.767 , off the north coast of ...

3. Lady Franklin Bay - Wikipedia

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   Lady Franklin Bay is in a generally northeast to southwest direction, and as such it spreads inland about 110 km (70 mi) from Hall Basin. The main bay contains one noted branch to the northwest known as Discovery Bay, and the interior lengths of Lady Franklin Bay extending southwest are sometimes shown on maps as Archer Fjord .

4. Adolphus Greely - Wikipedia

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   In 1881, he was appointed to command the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, a 25-man expedition organized to carry out Arctic explorations. The expedition ran short of food and several resupply and rescue missions were unsuccessful, and by the time Greely and his men were rescued in 1884, there were only six survivors.

5. George W. Rice (photographer) - Wikipedia

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   The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition left St. John's, Newfoundland, on 7 July 1881 with a crew of 22 aboard the Proteus, a steam whaler. After picking up 2 Inuit dog sled drivers in Godhavn Greenland, base camp for the expedition was established as Fort Conger on the northern shore of Lady Franklin Bay during late summer 1881.

6. List of Arctic expeditions - Wikipedia

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   1881–1884: Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, US Army Signal Corps expedition led by Adolphus Greely 1882–1883 : The Danish Dijmphna expedition travels to the territory between Russia and the North Pole

7. Ellesmere Island - Wikipedia

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   [10]: 334 [7]: 19 Edward Augustus Inglefield led an 1852 expedition which surveyed the coastlines of Baffin Bay and Smith Sound, being stopped by ice in Nares Strait. [ 10 ] : 339 He named Ellesmere Island for the president of the Royal Geographical Society (1849–1852), Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere . [ 13 ]

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9. James Clark Ross - Wikipedia

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   Sir James Clark Ross DCL FRS FLS FRAS (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of both the northern and southern polar regions. In the Arctic, he participated in two expeditions led by his uncle, John Ross, and in four led by William Edward Parry: in the Antarctic, he led his his own expedition from 1839 to 1843.