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Sir James Clark Ross and the Franklin Expedition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Richard J. Cyriax
Richard J. Cyriax
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[Author of Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition, (London, 1939).]
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No officers, apart from those who actually served in the Franklin expedition, were so closely connected with it, both before and after its departure, as Sir Edward Parry and Sir James Clark Ross. Parry, after his last Arctic expedition (1827), was consulted as a matter of course by the Admiralty on all Arctic problems; he assisted in organising the Franklin Expedition; and was one of the Admiralty's principal advisers during the search.

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Polar Record , Volume 3 , Issue 24 , July 1942, pp. 528 - 540
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1942

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