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John Rae FRS FRGS (Inuktitut: ᐊᒡᓘᑲ, ; 30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893) was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada. He was a pioneer explorer of the Northwest Passage . Rae explored the Gulf of Boothia , northwest of the Hudson Bay , from 1846 to 1847, and the Arctic coast near Victoria Island from 1848 to 1851.
John Rae: Scottish explorer (1813-1893) For his survey of Boothia undermost severe privations and for his very important contributions to the Geography of the Arctic 1853 Francis Galton: English polymath: geographer, statistician, eugenicist For fitting out and conducting in Expedition to explore the centre of Southern Africa 1854 William Henry ...
In 1854, the explorer John Rae found himself at the centre of one of the great controversies of the nineteenth century – the fate of the Franklin expedition. With the British hoping to be first in the race to discover the Northwest Passage, the news Rae brought of starvation and cannibalism among final survivors set off a firestorm that would eclipse his own incredible accomplishments.
John Rae (actor) (1896–1985), Scottish actor; John Rae (economist) (1796–1872), Scottish economist and author of Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy; John Rae (explorer) (1813–1893), Scottish explorer of the Arctic; John Rae (administrator) (1813–1900), Australian administrator, painter and author
The Honeyman family later moved to the mainland, and the house was occupied by their agent, John Rae. The hall was the birthplace of Rae's son, the Arctic explorer John Rae, in 1813. Sir Walter Scott visited Rae's parents at the house in August 1814, while touring the north of Scotland. [1] Currently derelict, the house became a listed building ...
The Canadian Economics Association awards the John Rae prize every two years since 1994 to the Canadian economist with "the best research record for the past five years." ." The prize has been named after John Rae (1796–1872) who did most of his work in Canada and was "a genuine precursor of endogenous growth theo
Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic captivated the Victorian public with its mysterious disappearance, fruitless rescue missions and gory tales of cannibalism.
South Orkney Islands. Point Rae) is a point marking the northeast side of the entrance to Scotia Bay on the south coast of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney IslandsIt was charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under Bruce, who named it for John Rae, Scottish Arctic explorer and member of the Sir John Richardson expedition of 1854, which discovered the fate of the Sir ...