Sir William Edward Parry FRS (19 December 1790 – 8 July 1855) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his 1819–1820 expedition through the...
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Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, KCB (8 April 1893 – 21 August 1972) was an officer of the Royal Navy. Parry joined the Royal Navy 1905 and served in...
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Melville Island and Prince Patrick Island. Parry Channel is named after Arctic explorer William Edward Parry, who in 1819 got as far as Melville Island...
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two expeditions led by his uncle, John Ross, and in four led by William Edward Parry: in the Antarctic, he led his his own expedition from 1839 to 1843...
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four decades explorers including John Ross; David Buchan; William Edward Parry; Frederick William Beechey; James Clark Ross (nephew of John Ross); George...
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many expeditions, including those by John Ross, Elisha Kent Kane, William Edward Parry, and James Clark Ross; overland expeditions were also led by John...
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William Island). The first European visit to the island was in 1819, by Captain William Edward Parry. The island was named after the artist William Beechey...
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expedition of 1821–23 to the Northwest Passage led by Commander William Edward Parry twice over-wintered in Foxe Basin. It provided the first informed...
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closure of the DEW line site. It is named for the Arctic explorer William Edward Parry. Between the 1950s to the 1980s, a Distant Early Warning Line site...
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William Edward Parry (1878 – 27 November 1952) was a New Zealand politician and trade unionist. Parry was born at Orange, New South Wales, Australia....
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in area. The island was named after Sir Thomas Byam Martin by Sir William Edward Parry in August 1819 during his first expedition to discover the Northwest...
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scientists. Robert Bylot and William Baffin were the first Europeans to sight Devon Island in 1616. William Edward Parry charted its south coast in 1819–20...
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which encountered the strait in 1822 during an expedition led by Sir William Edward Parry. Both ships became stuck in ice in October 1821, and remained immobile...
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to an Arctic exploration ship and re-rated as a sloop. Commander William Edward Parry commissioned her in December 1820, and Fury then made two journeys...
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Thule people, as evidenced by whale bones, tunnels and stone ruins. William Edward Parry was the first documented European to sight the island in 1819. HMS...
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Harbour is 32 km (20 mi) to the east. Croker's Bay was named by William Edward Parry in honour of John Wilson Croker. "Croker Bay". Geographical Names...
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Terror National Historic Site of Canada Fury and Hecla sailed with William Edward Parry on his explorations in search of the Northwest Passage, with Fury...
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Cape Parry Migratory Bird Sanctuary on the northern extremity of the Parry Peninsula. It is named for the Arctic explorer William Edward Parry, as well...
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(1896–1964) 21 June 1948 14 August 1948 54 days 2 Parry, William EdwardVice Admiral Sir William Edward Parry KCB (1893–1972) 14 August 1948 25 January 1950...
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William Edward Parry-Okeden ISO (13 May 1841 – 30 August 1926) was a public servant, Police Commissioner and Protector of Aborigines (1895-1903), as well...
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1819: Royal Navy expedition aboard HMS Hecla and HMS Griper led by William Edward Parry in search of the Northwest Passage 1819–1822: The Coppermine expedition...
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Arctic explorer and naval officer Sir William Edward Parry in 1819. The island is named for Royal Navy admiral Sir William Cornwallis. Cornwallis Island is...
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(360 sq mi), it is the largest island offshore of Prince of Wales Island. William Edward Parry was the first European to sight the island in 1819. Another, much...
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Bayfield in the 19th century in honour of the Arctic explorer Sir William Edward Parry. In 1857, the modern townsite was established near the Ojibwa village...
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John Franklin (category People educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth)
River. At the same time, William Edward Parry would try to sail west from the Atlantic. (Beechey reached Point Barrow and Parry became frozen-in 900 mi [1...
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Henry Parry, was a physician, and their youngest son, Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, was an Arctic explorer. Parry's daughter Sarah Matilda Parry was...
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explorer John Rae. Between 1821 and 1823 its east side was mapped by William Edward Parry, who named the peninsula (along with Melville Island) after Robert...
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vessel, under Lieutenant William Edward Parry. Ross sailed anti-clockwise around Baffin Bay repeating the observations made by William Baffin two hundred years...
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England. Several of his officers protested, including First Mate William Edward Parry and Edward Sabine, but they could not dissuade him. The account of Ross's...
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and sponsor of explorer Luke Foxe's 1631 Arctic voyage. Captain William Edward Parry, trying to find the Northwest Passage during his 1821 voyage, wrote:...
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