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- Nineteenth-century explorer John Rae helped map the Canadian Arctic, and found key clues regarding the fate of Captain John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. But Rae fell out of favour in Britain for suggesting the Franklin crew may have engaged in cannibalism, and he died in disgrace in 1893.
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John Rae FRS FRGS (Inuktitut: ᐊᒡᓘᑲ, ; 30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893) was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada. He was a pioneer explorer of the Northwest Passage. Rae explored the Gulf of Boothia, northwest of the Hudson Bay, from 1846 to 1847, and the Arctic coast near Victoria Island from
Jul 1, 2012 · ORCADIAN John Rae was the explorer time forgot, vilified and consigned to obscurity - but a BBC docudrama and an Orkney historian are helping to set the record straight.
Oct 6, 2023 · The younger John Rae grew up to become one of the most accomplished Arctic explorers, travelling thousands of miles on foot and by boat through uncharted regions of lakes, forests and tundra on the North American continent.
Oct 5, 2023 · In 1854, as we have seen, John Rae worked with William Ouligbuck and relayed Inuit testimony that many of Franklin’s men had starved to death while trekking south, and that some of the final survivors had been driven to cannibalism.
In 1854, Dr John Rae brought back Inuit stories that the expedition had perished somewhere to the west of the Back River. It appeared some of the men had resorted to cannibalism, as many bodies were mutilated and body parts were found in cooking pots.
Mar 30, 2021 · John Rae died in 1893 and is buried at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. 300 miles south, in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, another grave associated with the Franklin Expedition can be found. The body of Lieutenant John Irving was found by a US Army expedition in the late 1870s.
Oct 19, 2020 · John Rae was a surgeon from the Orkney Islands, an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and an important nineteenth-century Arctic explorer. He is probably most famous for being the person who first found conclusive evidence concerning the tragic fate of the Franklin expedition to the North American Arctic, and he is sometimes incorrectly ...
