Posts Tagged ‘Beechey Island’
Beechey Island whiteout inspires Dead Reckoning video
Scenes from September, voyaging Out of the Northwest Passage with Adventure Canada. Day 8: Beechey Island For visiting Beechey Island, the best-known historical site in the Arctic, the day was perfect: cool and overcast. We went ashore in zodiacs and climbed the rocky, snow-swept slope to the graves of the first three sailors to die…
Read MoreDead Reckoning inspires first-ever book launch at Beechey Island
First came the book launch at Beechey Island. We were sailing through the Northwest Passage with Adventure Canada when, thanks to a myriad of volunteers, the party just erupted. OK, we didn’t party ON the island, site of the graves of the first three men to die on the 1845 Franklin expedition. That would have…
Read MoreBeechey Island graves testify to the demise of the Franklin expedition
[Beechey Island is the most visited historical site in the Arctic — and with good reason. Last September, we got snow. In 2017, when we sail Out of the Northwest Passage, we will call in there once more.] DAY TEN– Beechey Island Sixty or seventy beluga whales stole the show at Beechey Island. We floated…
Read MoreMerry Christmas from the Northwest Passage
Okay, so we aren’t there at this moment. But we WILL be going back in August. Party on! DAY SIX: Port Leopold and Beechey Island 2015: Sept. 10 Spectacular Thule sites greeted voyagers who went ashore at Port Leopold, at the northeast corner of Somerset Island. Archaelogist Latonia Hartery identified these dozen dwellings as Thule…
Read MoreBeechey Island Blues
Our hero frets about the Arctic in today’s Globe. . . By Ken McGoogan The late Pierre Berton liked to describe how in 1853, when Arctic explorer Leopold McClintock was searching for the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin and travelling across spongy, summer-time tundra, he chanced upon cart tracks so fresh that he thought…
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