One more Irish Polar Explorer

[(RIP) Bin Ridin]

Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (16 August 1796–after 1848?) was born in Ireland at Banbridge, County Down and was a British naval officer who participated in six exploratory expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.

There is a nice monument to the man in Banbridge....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crozier#Northwest_Passage_expedition

They don't make them like they used too!

 

[Aidan1150]

I read a bit about him only last week Laurence after seeing his name mentioned by the lads that are hoping to row the North West Passage this summer.

 

[ChubbyThumper]

I read a bit about him only last week Laurence after seeing his name mentioned by the lads that are hoping to row the North West Passage this summer.

Any more info on this Aidan? Kinda hard to imagine rowing through this stuff although the climate has changed dramatically in the North

 

[Aidan1150]

Any more info on this Aidan?

Here you go Terry.

 

[Myke Rocks]

If I went searching in my house there is a book on the subject

Crozier was on the "Erebus" and, as I recall, everyone on the ship died of lead poisioning brought about by being the first guinea pigs for tinned food, which was sealed in the cans using a lead solder.
The officers dined more on canned food, so they died first.
Around 27 years ago, an expedition followed their route, and found the fully marked graves of the first to die. Dug them up out of the permafrost, and found them just as they had been buried over 100 years previously.
They had all been autopsied before burial. Samples were taken and the results proved conclusively the cause of death.
It is probable that they all went mad.
A dreadful calamity.
As stated, subsequent expeditions found traces of them and what happened to them.
Myke

 

[ChubbyThumper]

Here you go Terry.

Cheers Aidan, the guys seem to be mostly Irish which makes it more interesting. I don't think Tuk to Pond Inlet is regarded as a full transit of the NW passage (Wikipedia) but fair play to them all the same for highlighting global warming

 

[The Heff]

Crozier

Years ago, long before the traffic lights appeared here, it was treated like a roundabout.

I was a teenager on my 16er special, a Suzuki AP50, and if you timed it right, or there was no other traffic, it was perfect for grinding the pedals as you went around this monument.


They were the days