Joseph René Bellot
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Joseph-René Bellot was a French naval officer and Arctic explorer.
Portrait by Stephen Pearce
Memorial cairn for Joseph-René Bellot on Beechey Island, in the Canadian High Arctic, September 2015
Bellot Memorial, Greenwich, South East London
Bellot Strait
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Bellot Strait is a strait in Nunavut that separates Somerset Island to its north from the Murchison Promontory of Boothia Peninsula to its south, which is the northernmost part of the mainland of the
Joseph René Bellot
…Kennedy and Bellot set out from their winter quarters in Batty Bay on a dog sledging journey, travelling south to Brentford Bay, where they discovered Bellot Strait, a strait between Boothia Felix and Somerset Island. They then continued west to cross Prince of Wales Island to Ommanney Bay, returning to Batty Bay…
Bellot Strait viewed from its western end