The 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole was a British Royal Navy expedition suggested by the Royal Society and especially its vice president...
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HMS Racehorse (1757) (category Sloops of the Royal Navy)
1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole. Renamed HMS Thunder in 1775, she was captured back by the French in 1778. Racehorse was originally the...
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Mamluk Sultan of Egypt. June 4 – 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole sets out from Britain. June 10 – The Regulating Act is given royal assent...
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British Royal Navy Phipps expedition towards the North Pole, which produces the first scientific description of the polar bear and the ivory gull. Scottish...
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seawater was used on the second voyage of James Cook and on the 1773 expedition by Constantine John Phipps towards the North Pole, in which Irving participated...
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The Carcass was one of the two bomb vessels sent under the command of Constantine John Phipps to Svalbard during the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the...
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traces the Coppermine River to the Arctic Ocean 1773: Ivan Lyakhov discovered Kotelny Island 1773: The Phipps expedition towards the North Pole reaches...
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On 4 June 1773, Phipps set off from Deptford on a voyage towards the North Pole. He had two ships, the Racehorse and the Carcass. Phipps took with him...
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month from the eighteenth century. 4 June – 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole sets out from the Nore. 21 June – Parliament passes the Regulating...
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the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole. Conway, W. M. 1906. No Man's Land: A History of Spitsbergen from Its Discovery in 1596 to the Beginning...
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expedition towards the North Pole. The Admiralty's instructions for Phipps from 25 May 1773 stated he should "proceed up to the North Pole or as far towards it...
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commanded HMS Carcass on the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole, with a young Horatio Nelson on board. During the expedition Nelson had seen and...
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"Farthest North". In 1773, a British naval expedition under captain Constantine Phipps sought a route to the pole from the Seven Islands, but found the way...
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an expedition towards the North Pole on the ships Dorothea and Trent. Franklin was subsequently leader of two overland expeditions to and along the Canadian...
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1770s (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Mamluk Sultan of Egypt. June 4 – 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole sets out from Britain. June 10 – The Regulating Act is given royal assent...
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David Buchan (category Explorers of the Arctic)
Hastings (1891). The Life Of Sir John Franklin And The North-West Passage, Chapter VII. Expedition of Buchan And Franklin Towards The North Pole. 1818. London:...
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Graham Gore (category Franklin's lost expedition)
an English officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in two expeditions to the Arctic and a survey of the coastline of Australia...
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration (category Lists of expeditions)
John Phipps (1744–1792) Surgeon-naturalist: Charles Irving, assisted by Olaudah Equiano Astronomer: Israel Lyons (1739–1775) Publication: C.J. Phipps (1774)...
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HMS Carcass (1759) (category Bomb vessels of the Royal Navy)
joined Constantine Phipps's expedition towards the North Pole. Horatio Nelson was assigned to Carcass as a midshipman, through the influence of his uncle...
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The Coppermine expedition of 1819–1822 was a British overland undertaking to survey and chart the area from Hudson Bay to the north coast of Canada, eastwards...
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HMS Erebus (1826) (category Franklin's lost expedition)
abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in September 2014. After...
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to Constantine Phipps for its expedition towards the North Pole, then it was assigned in North America. It worked less exactly than the original. William...
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The McClure Arctic expedition, one of many attempts to find the missing Franklin expedition, was significant for being the first to successfully discover...
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Limacina helicina (category Taxa named by Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave)
the reference and public domain text from the reference Phipps C. J. (1774). A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command 1773...
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Frederick William Beechey (category English explorers of North America)
Beechey, R. N. In The Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea. — (1843). A Voyage Of Discovery Towards The North Pole, Performed In His Majesty's...
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The Mackenzie River expedition of 1825–1827 was the second of three Arctic expeditions led by explorer John Franklin and organized by the Royal Navy....
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John Phipps "A voyage towards the North Pole" London 1774. British Museum Cat. No.4 G.B. Patent No.1113 30 December 1775. Memorial by Arnold to the Board...
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Ivory gull (category Taxa named by Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave)
on Spitsbergen during his 1773 expedition towards the North Pole. Johann Jakob Kaup later recognized the unique traits of the ivory gull and gave it a...
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Leopold McClintock (category Irish explorers of North America)
sources on the fate of Franklin's lost expedition, the ill-fated Royal Navy undertaking commanded by Sir John Franklin in 1845 attempting to be the first to...
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The Rae–Richardson Arctic expedition of 1848 was an early British effort to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Polar Expedition. Led overland by Sir...
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