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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Vice-Admiral Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure CB (28 January 1807 – 17 October 1873) was an Irish explorer who explored the Arctic. In 1854 he traversed...
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eventually be discovered. Robert McClure led one of the expeditions that investigated the fate of Franklin's expedition, a voyage which was also beset by...
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Northwest Passage (redirect from Amundsen expedition)
Island. McClure's ship was trapped in the ice for three winters near Banks Island, at the western end of Viscount Melville Sound. Finally McClure and his...
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Scottish clan system, McClures are a sept of Clan MacLeod (of Dunvegan). Adele McClure, Virginia politician Alexander McClure (1828-1909), Pennsylvania...
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Harry McClure Johnson (May 13, 1886 – March 29, 1932) was a Chicago lawyer and member of the firm of Offend, Bulkley, Poole and Scott. He is the son of...
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the Enterprise and Investigator nine years earlier during the McClure Arctic Expedition. Bellot Strait was explored as the ship probed the westward ice...
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HMS Resolute (1850) (section Belcher Expedition)
and rescuing Captain McClure and his crew upon the ice-bound ship, HMS Investigator in April 1853. Captain Kellett ordered McClure to abandon Investigator...
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World War I. Nathaniel Fish McClure was born July 21, 1865, in Crittenden, Kentucky, to Ezra R. McClure and Nannie McClure. He attended the United States...
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The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships...
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