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    second Grinnell expedition of 1853–1855 was an American effort, financed by Henry Grinnell, to determine the fate of the Franklin's lost expedition....
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    Elisha Kent Kane (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    encampment and gravesite from Franklin's lost expedition on Beechey Island. He led the Second Grinnell expedition to the Arctic which was unsuccessful in discovering...
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    search for Franklin's ill-fated expedition in the Isabel, also sponsored by Jane Franklin 1853–1855: Second Grinnell expedition led by Elisha Kane looks for...
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  • The First Grinnell expedition of 1850 was the first American effort, financed by Henry Grinnell, to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Northwest...
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    McClure's HMS Investigator, in 1854. Elisha Kane leads the Second Grinnell expedition. Boat expedition up the Wellington Channel under the command of R. M'Cormick...
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    Hans Island expedition is in Elisha Kent Kane's account of the Second Grinnell expedition, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, 1853, ’54...
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    Hans Hendrik (category Polaris expedition)
    explorer Elisha Kent Kane for the 1853–1855 second Grinnell expedition to search for the lost Franklin expedition. He established his worth in the winter...
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  • NW Greenland. The islands are named after James McGary of the Second Grinnell Expedition. They are a breeding ground for the common eider. The McGary Islands...
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  • northwest Greenland. The islands are named after Amos Bonsall of the Second Grinnell Expedition. The Bonsall Islands are a chain of islands, islets and rocks...
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    1845–1848, by Elisha Kent Kane between 1854 and 1855 during his second Grinnell Expedition, after it was sighted by Hans Hendrik and the American William...
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    Mussey & Co., 1854. Kane, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition. 1856. Lynn Kauer. "Qaqortoq". Retrieved April 6, 2011.(in English)...
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    (1786–1847), by Elisha Kent Kane between 1854 and 1855 during his second Grinnell Expedition, after it was sighted by Hans Hendrik and the American William...
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    The Great Northern Expedition (Russian: Великая Северная экспедиция) or Second Kamchatka Expedition (Russian: Вторая Камчатская экспедиция) was one of...
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    E. Parker, 1832. Kane, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition Archived March 10, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. 1856. Lüdecke...
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    William Penny's Expedition (1850–51), Elisha Kane's Second Grinnell Expedition (1853–1855) into Kane Basin, Francis Leopold McClintock Expedition (1857) and...
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    Dundurn Press. Kane, Elisha Kent (1856). Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. Chicago: S. C...
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    Strait area together with Hans Hendrik in June 1854 during the Second Grinnell Expedition. Fossils dating back to the Homerian have been found in the area...
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    The Second Grinnell expedition (1853–1855) made slightly further progress before becoming trapped in the ice. Over two winters the expedition charted...
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    ISBN 1-74059-095-3. Kane, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition. 1856. Bennett, Mia (5 June 2017). "Why Greenland Is Tapping Foreign...
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  • funder of Kane's expedition. Currently, however, Peabody Bay is this smaller bay at the eastern side of the basin. Second Grinnell Expedition 1:1,000,000 scale...
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    Joseph Grinnell (February 27, 1877 – May 29, 1939) was an American field biologist and zoologist. He made extensive studies of the fauna of California...
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    ahead of schedule, he then signed on as ship's surgeon for the Second Grinnell Expedition of 1853–1855. Led by Elisha Kane, the project's members left New...
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    conserved in the future. As with the Second Grinnell expedition, McClure employed an Inuit interpreter. Franklin's expedition included no interpreters or Inuit...
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    been designated an Important Bird Area. In July 1853, during the Second Grinnell Expedition on the brig Advance Kane built a cairn on Littleton Island. Kane...
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    [permanent dead link] Kane, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition. 1856. "Celebrating the Self-Government Day". Government of Greenland...
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    of fame as an Arctic explorer with the Second Grinnell Expedition of 1853-55 and with his own 1860-61 expedition in search of the Open Polar Sea before...
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    polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and...
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    Arctic expeditions The Second Grinnell expedition of 1853–1855: set out to determine the fate of Franklin's expedition The Schwatka expedition of 1878–1880:...
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  • Chauncey C. Loomis (category Polaris expedition)
    introduction for an illustrated edition of Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853 by Elisha Kent Kane (R.R...
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    Both Grinnell and Lady Jane Franklin hoped the restored Resolute would once again be employed for a new expedition in search of the Franklin expedition. Evidence...
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