Beechey Island Sites National Historic Sites of Canada
Designated
1993
Beechey Island (Inuktitut: Iluvialuit) is an island located in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada, in Wellington Channel. It is separated from the southwest corner of Devon Island by Barrow Strait. Other features include Wellington Channel, Erebus Harbour,[2] and Terror Bay (not to be confused with the Terror Bay south of King William Island).
^"Beechey Island". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
BeecheyIsland (Inuktitut: Iluvialuit) is an island located in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada, in Wellington Channel. It is separated from...
Frederick William Beechey used the Spanish name as late as 1831, believing that the Japanese "Boninsima" were entirely different islands. On 12 September...
Northwest Passage, but he died early in the trip and was buried on BeecheyIsland. His preserved body was exhumed in 1984, to try to determine the cause...
ultimately died, mostly in and around King William Island. Torrington was buried on BeecheyIsland. His body was exhumed by forensic anthropologist Owen...
that the expedition wintered on BeecheyIsland in 1845–46. Terror and Erebus became trapped in ice off King William Island in September 1846. According to...
driver Tyler Beechey (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player BeecheyIsland, a Canadian Arctic island named after Frederick William Lake Beechey, in Nunavut...
Frederick William Beechey FRS (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer. He was the...
malnourishment during the expedition's first year. He was buried on BeecheyIsland, next to John Torrington, who had become the expedition's first fatality...
Sir William Beechey RA (12 December 1753 – 28 January 1839) was a British portraitist during the golden age of British painting. Beechey was born at Burford...
command, on the expedition. The North Star stayed at a supply base on BeecheyIsland, while the other four ships split up to search for Franklin. The Resolute...
interviews with Inuit. Franklin's men spent the winter of 1845–46 on BeecheyIsland, where three crew members died and were buried. After travelling down...
but notable islands include; BeecheyIsland (74°43′N 091°51′W / 74.717°N 91.850°W / 74.717; -91.850 (BeecheyIsland)), which held the graves of Petty...
with British expeditions, they identified the remains of Franklin's BeecheyIsland winter camp, providing the first solid clues to Franklin's activities...
succumbed at BeecheyIsland. They occupied themselves searching the surrounding area for additional traces of Franklin, as BeecheyIsland was now known...
discovery of an encampment and gravesite from Franklin's lost expedition on BeecheyIsland. He led the Second Grinnell expedition to the Arctic which was unsuccessful...
supported the expedition. In 1825, the British Frederick William Beechey reached the Gambier Islands with his ship HMS Blossom during a long voyage of exploration...
Massey Island Little Cornwallis Island Coburg Island Helena Island Griffith Island Hoved Island Lowther Island Buckingham IslandBeecheyIsland Seymour...
first traces of Franklin that anyone had found. A few days later, on BeecheyIsland, the party came across three graves, which proved to be those of members...
Able-bodied Seaman John Hartnell and Royal Marine William Braine, on BeecheyIsland, Beattie was able to trace the source of the lead to the expedition's...
Alison (4 January 2021). "Robert Goodsir and the Franklin graves on BeecheyIsland". There Stood No Friendly Finger-Post to Guide Us. Retrieved 20 July...
of crew members John Torrington, William Braine and John Hartnell on BeecheyIsland 1851: William Kennedy leads a search expedition for Franklin in the...
save for a 550 mile stretch on foot over pack ice from Mercy Bay to BeecheyIsland. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld; 1878–1879; first circumnavigation of Eurasia...
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