Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands onboard the D.G.S. Neptune, 1903-1904
by LOW, A.P
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Ottawa. Department of Marine. 1906. 22.5cm, first edition, xvii,355p. frontis & 62 plates & illustrations, rear folding pocket map in colour, brown cloth, gilt titles, a fine copy. (Ar). A.B. 2717. Holland p448. The narrative, with supplemental information from previous reports, of an expedition sent by the Canadian government to assert Canadian sovereignty over Hudson Bay and the Arctic islands and to establish police and customs stations. Low sailed up to Cape Herschel on Ellesmere Island, which he mapped and claimed for Canada. "He made many important surveys. Sent on an Arctic patrol in 1903, he wrote the well-constructed narrative Cruise of the Neptune." Story.
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- Title
- Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands onboard the D.G.S. Neptune, 1903-1904
- Author
- LOW, A.P
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- Ottawa. Department of Marine. 1906
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- bernier arctic northern north polar nepture patrol ice breaker canada canadiana government expedition exploration
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