M'cLintock's Search Party Finding One of Franlin's Cairns at Cape Herschel', c1859, (1928). Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907), Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy, known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Originally from A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions; The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas, by Francis Leopold McClintock. (J. Murray, London, 1859). From The Book of Polar Exploration, by E. L. Elias M.A. (George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London, 1928) |