Beechey Island (Inuktitut: Iluvialuit) is an island located in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada, in Wellington Channel. It is separated from... 10 KB (989 words) - 13:22, 1 October 2023 |
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... 124 KB (13,765 words) - 21:53, 29 March 2024 |
Frederick William Beechey used the Spanish name as late as 1831, believing that the Japanese "Boninsima" were entirely different islands. On 12 September... 61 KB (6,439 words) - 23:58, 21 March 2024 |
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... 18 KB (2,165 words) - 20:32, 21 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (423 words) - 11:21, 3 March 2023 |
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... 8 KB (840 words) - 17:09, 30 March 2024 |
driver Tyler Beechey (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player Beechey Island, a Canadian Arctic island named after Frederick William Lake Beechey, in Nunavut... 992 bytes (167 words) - 22:12, 17 December 2020 |
Arctic Archipelago (redirect from Arctic Island) 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... 37 KB (3,421 words) - 15:08, 19 March 2024 |
succumbed at Beechey Island. They occupied themselves searching the surrounding area for additional traces of Franklin, as Beechey Island was now known... 35 KB (5,050 words) - 06:20, 1 March 2024 |
HMS Terror having recently left Beechey Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, heading south toward King William Island into uncharted territory, seeking... 74 KB (3,786 words) - 08:57, 12 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,177 words) - 08:26, 13 November 2023 |
Frederick William Beechey FRS (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer. He was the... 13 KB (1,342 words) - 16:12, 30 March 2024 |
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... 25 KB (3,143 words) - 16:09, 30 March 2024 |
with British expeditions, they identified the remains of Franklin's Beechey Island winter camp, providing the first solid clues to Franklin's activities... 14 KB (1,941 words) - 12:34, 11 January 2024 |
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... 6 KB (640 words) - 16:59, 23 July 2023 |
'Ocean Adventurer', weighs anchor departing from Griffin Inlet at Beechey Island, Nunavut in the Canadian High Arctic. Founded 1991 Headquarters Seattle... 12 KB (728 words) - 02:13, 15 April 2024 |
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... 92 KB (9,785 words) - 05:48, 23 April 2024 |
of crew members John Torrington, William Braine and John Hartnell on Beechey Island 1851: William Kennedy leads a search expedition for Franklin in the... 40 KB (4,647 words) - 10:28, 22 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,590 words) - 14:14, 16 April 2024 |
A Twin Otter at Beechey Island visiting the graves of sailors from the lost expedition of John Franklin... 11 KB (632 words) - 21:48, 8 April 2024 |
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... 52 KB (281 words) - 21:11, 31 March 2024 |