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Arnaq or Egnock (died November 1577) was the name given by the English to an Inuk woman from what is now Baffin Island, Nunavut, who was taken hostage by Sir Martin Frobisher on his second journey to find the Northwest Passage. She, her infant son (named by the English as Nutaaq) and an Inuk man named as Kalicho were among the first Inuit and ...
Minik in New York shortly after his arrival, 1897. Minik Wallace (also called Minik or Mene) (c. 1890 – October 29, 1918) was an Inughuaq (Inuk) brought as a child in 1897 from Greenland to New York City with his father and others by the explorer Robert Peary. The six Inuit were studied by staff of the American Museum of Natural History ...
The Inuit showed Rae many objects that were identified as having belonged to members of the Franklin expedition. In particular, Rae bought from the Inuit several silver forks and spoons later identified as belonging to Franklin; Fitzjames; Crozier; and James Walter Fairholme and Robert Orme Sargent, two crewmembers from Erebus. Rae's report was ...
Signature. Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (UK: / ˈɑːmʊndsən /, US: /- məns -/; [ 3 ][ 4 ]Norwegian: [ˈrùːɑɫ ˈɑ̂mʉnsən] ⓘ; 16 July 1872 – c.18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Borge, Østfold, Norway, Amundsen ...
Forced adoption is the practice of forcefully taking ... Métis and Inuit ... former judge Alan Goldsack called for the UK Government to forcibly remove children from ...
Charles Francis Hall (c. 1821 – November 8, 1871) was an American Arctic explorer, best known for his collection of Inuit testimony regarding the 1845 Franklin Expedition and the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death while leading the American-sponsored Polaris expedition in an attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole.
The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–16, ended with the loss of the ship in the Arctic seas, and the subsequent deaths of nearly half her complement of 25. In August 1913, Karluk, a brigantine formerly used as a whaler, became trapped in the ice while sailing to a rendezvous point at Herschel Island.
He was of illegitimate birth, and during his life and after, his friends and relatives took great pains to conceal his origins. Though biographer William Battersby initially believed Fitzjames was born on 27 July 1813 in Rio de Janeiro in what was then Colonial Brazil, [1] he later issued a correction on his website stating Fitzjames was more likely born in London, England, as he stated on his ...