Somerset Island (Nunavut)
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Somerset Island is a large, uninhabited island of the Arctic Archipelago, that is part of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. The island is separated from Cornwallis Island and Devon Island to the nort
Fury Beach, on the eastern shore of Somerset Island
HMS Fury (1814)
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HMS Fury was a Hecla-class bomb vessel of the British Royal Navy.
Somerset Island (Nunavut)
…by whale bones, tunnels and stone ruins. William Edward Parry was the first documented European to sight the island in 1819, naming it North Somerset. HMS Fury was an Arctic exploration ship commanded by Henry Parkyns Hoppner. She was damaged by ice while overwintering and was abandoned on 25 August 1825, at…
Lithograph depicting HMS Hecla (1815) and HMS Fury, by Arthur Parsey, 1823
Anchors of HMS Fury at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean at Fort Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
Explanatory plaque