CHAPTER IX 

 THE PARRY ISLANDS 



John Rae Wollaston Land and Victoria Strait Overlaps Franklin's route 

 M'Clure discovers Prince of Wales Strait The North-West Passage 

 Banks Land M'Clure rescued by Bedford Pirn Collinson's remarkable 

 voyage In Beaufort Sea Reaches Banks Strait Voyage to Cambridge 

 Bay On Franklin's route The North-West Passage sailed by Amundsen 

 along the track of the Enterprise Sir John Barrow Parry's first voyage 

 Penetrates Lancaster Sound and discovers the Parry Islands Stopped 

 by ice in Banks Strait The search for Franklin Sir John Ross De 

 Haven Penny Austin Ommanney Osborn Belcher Kellett 

 M'Clintock Drift of the Resolute Sledge work Sverdrup's discoveries 

 during his four years in the north. 



THE second to complete a north-west passage by 

 linking up with Franklin's voyage was Dr. John 

 Rae, an Orkneyman by birth, as energetic as Thomas 

 Simpson and evidently not inferior to him in stamina, 

 for in his Arctic journeys he walked a distance equal to 

 that of the circumference of the earth. In 1846 he 

 had surveyed the Committee Bay district between 

 Boothia and the Melville Peninsula, reaching it from 

 Repulse Bay, and in 1848 and 1849 he had been associ- 

 ated with Richardson in searching for Franklin along the 

 coast from the Mackenzie eastwards. Next year, while 

 in charge of the Mackenzie district, he was again re- 

 quested to lead a Franklin search expedition, and, 

 starting from Fort Confidence on the 25th of April, 

 was on the sea by the 1st of May. Crossing over to 

 Wollaston Land, and making westward along the coast 



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