• Hecla and Griper Bay is an Arctic waterway. Located in the Hazen Strait, it is a large inlet in the north of Melville Island, Canada. It is split between...
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  • ghost town near Laramie Hecla and Fury Islands, Nunavut, Canada Hecla and Griper Bay, Nunavut and Northwest Territories, Canada Hecla-Grindstone Provincial...
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    dragging a wooden cart to the north shore of the island which he named Hecla and Griper Bay. It was the first of August before the ships were able to float out...
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  • Melville Island's Sabine Peninsula, the bay is an arm of Hecla and Griper Bay. To the south lies Sabine Bay. "Eldridge Bay". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural...
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  • Melville Island's Sabine Peninsula, the bay is an arm of Hecla and Griper Bay. Eldridge Bay is to the north. "Sabine Bay". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural...
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    3-masted sailing ships: the 375 ton HMS Hecla and the 182 ton Griper. Their destination was the Northwest Passage. Griper was by far the inferior of the two...
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    HMS Hecla was a Royal Navy Hecla-class bomb vessel launched in 1815. Like many other bomb vessels, she was named for a volcano, in this case Hekla in southern...
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  • Asia, the Arctic Ocean and North America. At this latitude the sun is visible for 24 hours, 0 minutes during the summer solstice and nautical twilight during...
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  • entrance to the bay is marked by Fitzjames Island on the west and Irving Island to the east. The bay opens to Queen Maud Gulf. The bay was one of a series...
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    Attempt To Reach Repulse Bay In His Majesty's Ship Griper, In The Year MDCCCXXIV, London (1825) Journal of a residence and tour in the Republic of Mexico...
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