| |
| | HMS Discovery and the 1875 Arctic Expedition |
 | | The story of the 1875 Nares Expedition starts in 1873 when plans were first made to follow in the footsteps of William Baffin, the American explorer Charles Hall and the whalers who were beginning to sail into northernmost waters. |
 | | Charles Francis Hall spent five years in the Arctic living with the Eskimos and learning their way of life before setting sail in 1871 in Polaris, a converted tug, steaming through the waterways from Smith Sound to the Arctic Sea, extending the known coastline of Ellesmere Island. |
 | | The line of exploration to be undertaken by you to the westward, UP Lady Franklin Sound, is to determine the continuity of Grant Land, which I wish to be considered of the first importance, as well as deciding whether Lady Franklin Sound is a bay, fjord or channel. |
| www.cavillconnections.co.uk /discovery.htm (1706 words) |
|