John Richardson (naturalist)
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Sir John Richardson FRS FRSE was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer.
Sir John Richardson
John Richardson, 1828 by Thomas Phillips, R.A., engraved by Edward Finden
Coppermine expedition
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The Coppermine expedition of 1819–1822 was a British overland undertaking to survey and chart the area from Hudson Bay to the north coast of North America, eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine R
John Richardson (naturalist)
…medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and ichthyology for the official account of the expedition. Franklin and Richardson returned to Canada…
Sir John Barrow was the driving force for the Royal Navy's exploration of the Arctic in the early 19th century
Constructing a camp during the first winter of the expedition
Native chief Akaitcho with his son
Winter at Fort Enterprise