• Beechey Island (Inuktitut: Iluvialuit) is an island located in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada, in Wellington Channel. It is separated from...
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    1850). Ommanney finds Franklin's Beechey Island camp. Austin's four and the below ships gather around Beechey Island, are frozen in, and in spring send...
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    Frederick William Beechey used the Spanish name as late as 1831, believing that the Japanese "Boninsima" were entirely different islands. On 12 September...
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    HMS Resolute (1850) (category Baffin Island)
    HMS Talbot, which arrived at Beechey Island just as the overcrowded North Star was about to sail. The men left Beechey Island on 29 August 1854. The British...
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    that the expedition wintered on Beechey Island in 1845–46. Terror and Erebus became trapped in ice off King William Island in September 1846. According to...
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    ultimately died, mostly in and around King William Island. Torrington was buried on Beechey Island. His body was exhumed by forensic anthropologist Owen...
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  • Northwest Passage, but he died early in the trip and was buried on Beechey Island. His preserved body was exhumed in 1984, to try to determine the cause...
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  • malnourishment during the expedition's first year. He was buried on Beechey Island, next to John Torrington, who had become the expedition's first fatality...
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  • driver Tyler Beechey (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player Beechey Island, a Canadian Arctic island named after Frederick William Lake Beechey, in Nunavut...
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    command, on the expedition. The North Star stayed at a supply base on Beechey Island, while the other four ships split up to search for Franklin. The Resolute...
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    but notable islands include; Beechey Island (74°43′N 091°51′W / 74.717°N 91.850°W / 74.717; -91.850 (Beechey Island)), which held the graves of Petty...
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    62.583; -82.750 (Coats Island, NU) ^map 62 Beechey, 74°43′N 091°51′W / 74.717°N 91.850°W / 74.717; -91.850 (Beechey Island, NU) ^map 63 Broughton...
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    succumbed at Beechey Island. They occupied themselves searching the surrounding area for additional traces of Franklin, as Beechey Island was now known...
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  • HMS Terror having recently left Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, heading south toward King William Island into uncharted territory, seeking...
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  • The discovery of lead in the bones would lead Beattie and his team to Beechey Island to exhume the graves of three Franklin crewmen to determine the origins...
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    Frederick William Beechey FRS (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer. He was the...
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    interviews with Inuit. Franklin's men spent the winter of 1845–46 on Beechey Island, where three crew members died and were buried. After travelling down...
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  • with British expeditions, they identified the remains of Franklin's Beechey Island winter camp, providing the first solid clues to Franklin's activities...
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    Massey Island Little Cornwallis Island Coburg Island Helena Island Griffith Island Hoved Island Lowther Island Buckingham Island Beechey Island Seymour...
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    Sir William Beechey RA (12 December 1753 – 28 January 1839) was a British portraitist during the golden age of British painting. Beechey was born at Burford...
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    ice in the Wellington Channel. A memorial grave was built on nearby Beechey Island. A pension was granted to his family by the emperor Napoleon III.[citation...
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    discovery of an encampment and gravesite from Franklin's lost expedition on Beechey Island. He led the Second Grinnell expedition to the Arctic which was unsuccessful...
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    'Ocean Adventurer', weighs anchor departing from Griffin Inlet at Beechey Island, Nunavut in the Canadian High Arctic. Founded 1991 Headquarters Seattle...
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    Torrington, William Braine and John Hartnell, exhumed from the permafrost of Beechey Island. Laboratory tests revealed high concentrations of lead in all three...
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    save for a 550 mile stretch on foot over pack ice from Mercy Bay to Beechey Island. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld; 1878–1879; first circumnavigation of Eurasia...
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    supported the expedition. In 1825, the British Frederick William Beechey reached the Gambier Islands with his ship HMS Blossom during a long voyage of exploration...
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    of crew members John Torrington, William Braine and John Hartnell on Beechey Island 1851: William Kennedy leads a search expedition for Franklin in the...
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    relics, graves, and human remains of the Franklin crew on Beechey Island, King William Island, and the northern coast of the Canadian mainland. In 2014...
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    A Twin Otter at Beechey Island visiting the graves of sailors from the lost expedition of John Franklin...
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    to locate the missing Franklin expedition. Crushed by ice south of Beechey Island, August 1853. Found in Barrow Strait, August 1980. 74°41′N 91°50′W...
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