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An Original Signed Paper Slip of the British naval officer and Arctic explorer George Francis Lyon, signed on board HMS Hecla during his 1821 expedition to search for the Northwest Passage.
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An Original Signed Paper Slip of the British naval officer and Arctic explorer George Francis Lyon, signed on board HMS Hecla during his 1821 expedition to search for the Northwest Passage. With the signature of his lieutenant Charles Palmer. George Francis Lyon FRS 1796-1832 was an English naval officer and explorer of Africa and the Arctic. Charles Palmer was a contemporary of the Arctic explorer William Edward Parry (1790-1855) He served as lieutenant in HMS Hecla under George Lyons during the British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, 1821-1823. This third Expedition: 1821–1823
As with William Edward Parry’s earlier trips to the Arctic, the aim of the 1821–1823 expedition was again to find a Northwest Passage. This time Parry attempted to travel further south, but the HMS Fury and HMS Hecla reached an impasse at Repulse Bay. Inuit visited the crew, hunted for them, as well as gave them useful hunting techniques and guidance on where they might travel next. The expedition only made it to the waterway between Baffin Island and the mainland of present-day Nunavut, which he named the Fury and Hecla Strait, before having to settle for a second winter in Igloolik. The expedition returned home after the winter as some of the crew were starting to become weak with symptoms of scurvy. Size of paper is 75mm x 43mm. Condition is average. Mounted on paper.
An Original Signed Paper Slip of the British naval officer and Arctic explorer George Francis Lyon, signed on board HMS Hecla during his 1821 expedition to search for the Northwest Passage.
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