James Murray (biologist)
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Dr James Murray FRSE was a Scottish biologist and explorer.
James Murray with Adélie Penguin chick (Nimrod-Expedition)
Last voyage of the Karluk
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The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1916, ended with the loss of the ship in the Arctic seas, and the subsequent deaths of nearly half her complement of 2
James Murray (biologist)
…friends at the Royal Geographical Society advised him against it. In June 1913, he joined a Canadian scientific expedition to the Arctic aboard the ill-fated Karluk as oceanographer. The ship became trapped in the Arctic ice in August 1913. Eventually, Murray and three others, dissatisfied with Captain Robert…
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, leader of the Canadian Arctic Expedition
Captain Robert Bartlett, who commanded Karluk's last voyage
The expedition's scientific staff, with Stefansson and Bartlett. Malloch, Beuchat, McKinlay, Mamen, Mackay and Murray remained with Karluk; the others formed the Southern Party.
Karluk in her days as a whaling vessel