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Bottom row left to right: Connell, Brainard, Lt Kislingbury, Lt Greely, Lt Lockwood, Israel, Jewell, Rice. Absent is Schneider who replaced a deserter. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 ( a.k.a. the Greely Expedition [ 1 ] ) to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely , and ...
File:Coppermine expedition map.jpg. ... English: "Barren Grounds of Northwestern Canada", map from True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by A. W. Greely.
The cape was named after Arctic explorer Sir Edward Sabine (1788–1883), was the site of the winter camp of Adolphus Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition in 1883–1884. [ 1 ] Notable people
British Arctic Expedition: 1875–1876 North Greenland George Nares: J. A. D. Jensen Expedition: 1878 Inland ice in West Greenland J. A. D. Jensen: Lady Franklin Bay Expedition: 1881-1884 Nares Strait area in far northern Greenland Adolphus Greely: Umiak Expedition: 1883–1885 Southeast Greenland Gustav Holm and Thomas Vilhelm Garde: Second ...
Fort Conger is a former settlement, military fortification, and scientific research post in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.It was established in 1881 as an Arctic exploration camp, [2] notable as the site of the first major northern polar region scientific expedition, [3] the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, led by Adolphus Greely as part of the United States government's contribution to ...
Greely also oversaw construction under adverse conditions a telegraph system for Alaska consisting of nearly 4,000 mi (6,400 km) of submarine cables, land cables and 107 mi (172 km) of wireless telegraphy, which at the time was the longest regularly working commercial system in the world. [18] Greely went aboard the cable ship USAT Burnside in ...
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The Adolphus Greely expedition wintered at Camp Clay in 1883, [3] and in 1884, Cape Sabine was the rescue site for Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. [4] The island is named in honour of naval officer and barrister Bedford Pim of HMS Resolute.