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	McClure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McClure's, a muckraking publication of the early 20th century.
		McClure (crater), a crater in Mare Fecunditatis on the Moon.
		McClure Pass, a mountain pass in the U.S. state of Colorado.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McClure (152 words)

	McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier
		McClure obtained a lieutenancy for his 1836-37 service on Terror under George BACK in the ice of Hudson Bay.
		McClure ungenerously informed a parliamentary committee that he could have kept his men alive without Kellett's aid, thereby denying his rescuers a share in the £10-000 voted to the discoverers of the passage.
		McClure served on the China Station 1856-61 and died a vice-admiral.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004843 (257 words)

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		McClure was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and entered the British Navy in 1824 and served as mate of the Terror on the 1836-7 George Back expedition, and as first lieutenant of the Investigator on the 1948 James Clark Ross expedition.
		McClure was knighted upon his return in 1854, and also promoted to Captain, with the commission backdated to 18 December 1850.
		McClure’s journals were published in 1856 as “The Discovery of t he North-West Passage by HMS ‘Investigator’, Capt. R.
	faculty.washington.edu /karpoff/Research/McClure.doc (1343 words)

	List of straits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Strait of Canso - between Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia
		Nares Strait - between Ellesmere Island and Northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with Lincoln Sea / the Arctic Sea.
		Strait of Tiran - between the Sinai peninsula and Saudi Arabia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_straits (754 words)

	Voyage of the Manhattan, Alaska Science Forum
		In 1850 Sir R. McClure sailed eastward from Bering Strait in the "Investigator" but was forced to abandon it on Banks Island in 1853.
		McClure received a prize of 10,000 English pounds for his discovery of the Northwest Passage.
		At one point on the night of September 10-11, the Manhattan was attempting to become the first vessel to make an east-to-west passage of McClure Strait when she became locked.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF6/639.html (675 words)

	McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Passing through the Bering Strait, he coasted along Alaska and Canada, then went by way of Prince of Wales Strait into the western part of Viscount Melville Sound.
		He wintered (1850–51) in Prince of Wales Strait and by a sledging journey along its shores reached Barrow Strait.
		Finally he abandoned ship in 1853 and by sledge retreated over Barrow Strait eastward across the ice to Dealy Island, where his party was ultimately rescued by Sir Edward Belcher’s expedition.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mc/McClureR.html (241 words)

	McClure Strait on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It extends W from Viscount Melville Sound, between Melville and Eglinton islands on the north and Banks Island on the south.
		In 1954, U.S. icebreakers cut through the strait for the first time, opening the last obstacle to the shortest water route across the Canadian arctic region.
		STRAIT TALK ABOUT RISK, PREVENTION OF OIL SPILLS NEW CARISSA LEAK FUELS EXAMINATION OF SYSTEM.(News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/McC1lureS1.asp (304 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Investigator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rather than wait for Collinson at Bering Strait, McClure sailed Investigator east into the Beaufort Sea and then northeast into the Prince of Wales Strait between Banks Island and Victoria Island, but by September Investigator was fast in the ice.
		In October, McClure set out by sledge up the strait to the shore of Viscount Melville Sound, to which William E. Parry had sailed in HMS Hecla in 1819-20, and thereby confirmed the existence of a Northwest Passage, however choked with ice.
		The note was discovered by the crew of HMS Resolute, then thirty-five miles east of Winter Harbor, and on April 6, 1853, a sledge party reached Mercy Bay.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_048800_hmsinvestig2.htm (423 words)

	Robert McClure
		That search was unsuccessful, but McClure returned to the Arctic as commander of the HMS Investigator in 1850.
		The Investigator remained frozen in the Arctic, but McClure and his men, suffering from starvation and scurvy, were finally rescued.
		McClure returned to England in 1854 and although he did not sail through the Northwest Passage, he and his crew were awarded the £10,000 prize for finding the route.
	www.athropolis.com /arctic-facts/fact-mcclure.htm (333 words)

	Other explorers of polar regions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		McClure was searching for Sir John Franklin, a British explorer who had not returned from a voyage begun in 1845.
		McClure sailed across the Beaufort Sea and around Banks Island, where his ship became stuck in ice.
		McClure and his crew almost starved to death, but were rescued in 1853.
	www.worldbook.com /features/explorers/html/saga_oepr.html (2941 words)

	BMMDA Background-Arctic Islands
		Amundson Gulf and Prince of Wales Strait are relatively shallow channels seldom exceeding 200 m in depth and generally less than 100 m deep.
		Ice conditions are shorter in duration in the Prince of Wales Strait.
		Summer ice conditions in the north portions of the Strait are variable as pack ice moves in and out from Viscount Melville Sound.
	www.bmmda.nt.ca /Arctic_Islands.htm (2848 words)

	Arctic Timeline of Discovery
		Hudson turned south and the vessel was forced to winter at the southern end of the bay because of ice.
		Two of the mutineers were killed by the Eskimos at the western end of Hudson Strait while many others died on the voyage home.
		McClure enters the passage from the west, exploring the coastline and Banks Island.
	www.south-pole.com /arctic00.htm (5479 words)

	Viscount Melville Sound
		Through McClure Strait on the west it is linked with the Beaufort Sea; Barrow Strait and McClintock Channel lead east and southeast.
		McClure Strait - McClure Strait, arm of the Beaufort Sea, c.170 mi (270 km) long and 60 mi (100 km) wide, Northwest...
		Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure - McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier, 1807–73, British arctic explorer.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0851024.html (207 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Pure Country (Widescreen/Full Screen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The big-screen debut of country singer George Strait is a familiar tale of a star returning to his roots, a route traveled the same year by John Mellencamp in Falling From Grace (1992).
		George Strait plays Dusty Chandler, a country music superstar who gets tired of the loud sound and overhyped special effects(smoke and strobe lights) in his shows.
		To be honest, what Strait's character goes through is more like being in one of Garth Brooks tours which is more rock and rap than it is country.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/630493629X (1375 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure 1807–73, British arctic explorer.
		On the north coast of Banks Island the Investigator was frozen in the ice for several winters.
		McClure became the first man to prove the existence of the Northwest Passage.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/McClureR.html (325 words)

	John Franklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Captain Collinson and Lieutenant McClure, both of whom had been with Ross, headed the expedition and the ships were directed around Cape Horn to approach from the west through Bering Strait.
		The proud McClure at first refused rescue, fearing it would interfere with his claim of navigating the Northwest Passage, until evacuation was ordered by Kellett.
		The troubles of McClure's crew were not over; they had moved less than a hundred miles east with their rescuers when they were icebound once more and had to spend a final winter in the arctic aboard Kellett's ships.
	www.redlandsfortnightly.org /jfrnklin.htm (6764 words)

	No. 1240: Northwest Passage
		The map shows there really is a Northwest Passage where Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, Melville Sound, and McClure Strait all form one long channel.
		Robert McClure was a searcher who set out in 1850.
		McClure sailed around the north coast of Alaska and from there found his way into the west end of the Passage.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1240.htm (743 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		How far north of the coast of North America were they able to get; did not their lines of journey eastward run very close to the coast line A.
		McClure and his party had to walk over the Bay of Mercy.
		From what you know of Arctic exploration, and from what you know of Arctic literature, in your judgment was it or was it not wiser for Captain De Long to endeavor to make to the westward and to reach Wrangel Land?—A. I had many a conversation with him before he left.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /gc/mtfgc/36809/0677.txt (474 words)

	Aulavik National Park
		Along the northwest coast, sheer limestone bluffs rise several hundred metres from McClure Strait, to become the gently undulating hills that flank the Thomsen River valley.
		A sparsely vegetated upland plateau rises to an elevation of 450 metres between the Thomsen River and Prince of Wales Strait.
		To the southwest of Castel Bay, rugged desert-like badlands, scoured by the elements into rounded barren hills, are relieved by the poorly drained wetlands around the Muskox River.
	www.canadianparks.com /northwest/aulavnp/page5.htm (178 words)

	Melville Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Separated from Victoria Island (south) by Viscount Melville Sound and from Banks Island (southwest) by McClure Strait, Melville Island is about 200 miles (320 km) long and 30–130 miles (50–210 km) wide with an area of 16,274 square miles...
		The discovery of this body of water, reached from the east by Sir William Edward Parry (1819–20) and from the west (1850–54) by Sir Robert McClure, proved the existence of the Northwest Passage and provided passage...
		In the spring of 1853 McClure abandoned it.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051931?tocId=9051931 (929 words)

	George McClure - Reviews - Pictures - Nashville producer, writer, artist
		Though we are regularly treated to a little swing thanks to superstars like George Strait, over here in the UK we rarely get to hear real western swing and when we do it is usually reissues of Bob Wills and the other 40's/50's exponents.
		George McClure is a very talented singer, songwriter, guitar player and producer.
		As it happens, George McClure's album is a journey into western swing and Texas border music, along with some sidetrips into his own slightly twisted imagination ("Alien Love").
	trowbridgeplanetearth.com /M1/M2/M2R1.html (742 words)

	USQUE AD MARE - A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services
		During the winter, parties from the Arctic crossed the McClure Strait, as McClure himself had done in the opposite direction some sixty years previously.
		On Banks Island, in the place which McClure had named the Bay of Gods Mercy, their ship had been forever frozen in the ice and, at the last moment, the people had been rescued by a relief ship.
		Although ice conditions had been too much for the hoped for transit of the ship to the Pacific, several notable shore parties left the Arctic during the winter and an extended overland trip was made to Fury and Hecla Strait and to the shores of the eastern part of the Gulf of Boothia.
	www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca /usque-ad-mare/chapter04-05_e.htm (1892 words)

	Marty Campbell, Western Humorist and Singer/Songwriter -- Profile -- McClure & Trowbridge Publishing, NASH USA
		They're not George Strait traditional, but they're not Little Texas rock and roll either.
		I like to look at my music as a cross between George Strait and John Cougar Mellencamp.
		McClure and Trowbridge: Leading the way in the 21'st century
	trowbridgeplanetearth.com /NASH/FreePgs/MCampbell.html (381 words)

	McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier on Encyclopedia.com
		He wintered (1850-51) in Prince of Wales Strait and by a sledging journey along its shores reached Barrow Strait.
		Pictures and Maps for: McClure, Sir Robert John Le Mesurier
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/McC1lureR1.asp (241 words)

	Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project \| History \| Submarines Under Ice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A specially outfitted submarine, the Atule, was to carry out submarine operations under the ice in Baffin Bay and to the north.
		The next year, with better ice sounding technology, submarine operations were also conducted under the ice in Bering Strait.
		In 1952, the Redfish joined the icebreaker Burton Island and reached McClure Strait, and the following year, with the Northwind, retraced the route part of the way.
	www.whoi.edu /beaufortgyre/history/history_subs.html (373 words)

	Seadragon
		Ordered to proceed via the Northwest Passage, she moved north to Parry Channel; reached Lancaster Sound, the eastern end of the channel, at mid-month; and continued westward with Edward Parry's journal, written in 1819, as a guide.
		On 21 August, she completed the first submarine transit of the Northwest Passage; entered the Beaufort Sea; and headed for the North Geographic Pole, which she reached on the 25th.
		Transiting Bering Strait and the Chukchi Sea, she contacted T-3, then moved further north to rendezvous with Skate, then en route from New London.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s8/seadragon-ii.htm (620 words)

	AllRefer.com - McClure Strait (Oceans And Continents) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - McClure Strait (Oceans And Continents) - Encyclopedia
		McClure Strait, arm of the Beaufort Sea, c.170 mi (270 km) long and 60 mi (100 km) wide, Northwest Territories, Canada.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on McClure Strait
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/McClureS.html (180 words)

	The Last Viking: West by North West
		As can be seen from Map 3, in early summer Davis Strait, Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay in the east are all open, as is the region near the wider and less problematic Dolphin and Union Strait, i.e., Coronation Gulf to Cape Parry.
		On the other hand, although the eastern side of Fury and Hecla Strait is almost open (via coastal leads) beyond this point a large field of ice is present and a similar situation prevails in the case of Bellot Strait - especially to the west.
		Firstly, one could in theory cross the Bering Strait and simply continue west along the northern shores of Asia - essentially continuing the circumpolar route to hopefully and ultimately reach northern Scandinavia itself, but this might well be too daunting a journey and also an impractical one.
	www.spirasolaris.ca /sbb4g1bv.html (15312 words)

	Canadian Military Heritage
		The tragic fate of Franklin and his men had not been in vain.
		In 1852 one of the many expeditions that had gone searching for them, that of Commodore Robert McClure on the HMS Investigator, reached Banks Island through the Bering Strait.
		McClure abandoned his ship there and went eastward on foot all the way to Melville Island, where he met another search ship that had arrived via the Atlantic.
	www.cmhg.gc.ca /cmh/en/page_462.asp (134 words)

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		He described his meeting and rescue of Commander Robert McClure of the Investigator on northern Banks Island.
		His decision to abandon four ships frozen in the ice in Wellington Channel in 1854 led to his court-martial, but he was acquitted.
		Bernier, of the voyage in Davis Strait, Baffin Bay, Navy Board Inlet, Admiralty Inlet, Prince Regent Inlet, Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, Melville Sound, Lady Ann Strait and return', together with other related reports and appendices, with much of scientific interest, meteorology, information on the native peoples in the areas visited, whaling, etc. Very well-illustrated.
	www.horizonbook.com /cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi?cart_id=5532741.9371*kW7R91&keywords=polar (5253 words)

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