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    great-grandson of Jonathan Belcher, who served as a colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. Belcher was born in Halifax, Nova...
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    came to be known as the Belcher Island Murders. In 1999, when Nunavut was separated from Northwest Territories, the Belcher Islands were included within...
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    Island is an island. 1852 Edward Augustus Inglefield in northern Baffin Bay. Edward Belcher in five ships: HMS Assistance (Belcher), HMS Resolute (Henry Kellett)...
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    Austin received provisions and placed under the command of Sir Edward Belcher. The Belcher Expedition was augmented by the addition of a fifth ship, North...
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    British captain Edward Belcher in 1837, who was commanding surveying expedition of two ships, HMS Sulphur and HMS Starling. Belcher recorded that "his...
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    Admiral, Sir Edward Belcher KCB, RN (1799-1877) who collected the holotype. H. belcheri is also referred to as Belcher's ocean snake. Belcher's sea snake...
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    adjacent Belcher's Street, which in turned was named after Sir Edward Belcher, a Canadian-born British naval officer and explorer. The Belcher's is connected...
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    unusually ice-free and no ship was able to travel so far west until Edward Belcher's expedition in 1850. A narrative of the expedition, entitled Journal...
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    justice of the peace from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Belcher was born in Halifax to father Jonathan Belcher, who was Nova Scotia's chief justice from 1754 to...
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    European sighting of the island was by Sir Edward Belcher on 30 August 1852, and was named in honour of Prince Edward, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall...
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    explorer Francis Leopold McClintock in the spring of that year during the Edward Belcher expedition. Much later, it was named for Prince Arthur William Patrick...
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    upon a party from HMS Resolute – one of the ships commanded by Sir Edward Belcher, who sailed into the Arctic region from the east. Subsequently, he completed...
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  • as a stopover for the ship the Intrepid on an Arctic expedition with Edward Belcher. The Ijirait are said to inhabit a place between two worlds; not quite...
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    public desire to know what happened, a five-ship squadron under Sir Edward Belcher set out from Britain in 1852 to search for the missing ships and explorer...
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    Park. Port Hamilton was surveyed in 1845 by British naval officer Sir Edward Belcher in HMS Samarang and was named after the then secretary of the Admiralty...
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    People Edward Adams Sir Alexander Armstrong Pelham Aldrich Sir Horatio Austin Sir George Back Sir John Barrow Frederick Beechey Sir Edward Belcher David...
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  • John Edward Belcher (20 February 1834 – 20 August 1915) was an Irish-born Canadian civil engineer and architect. He is most known for his work in Peterborough...
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    People Edward Adams Sir Alexander Armstrong Pelham Aldrich Sir Horatio Austin Sir George Back Sir John Barrow Frederick Beechey Sir Edward Belcher David...
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    People Edward Adams Sir Alexander Armstrong Pelham Aldrich Sir Horatio Austin Sir George Back Sir John Barrow Frederick Beechey Sir Edward Belcher David...
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    People Edward Adams Sir Alexander Armstrong Pelham Aldrich Sir Horatio Austin Sir George Back Sir John Barrow Frederick Beechey Sir Edward Belcher David...
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    and this date is considered as the founding of Hong Kong. Captain Edward Belcher, who surveyed the island in 1841, wrote: "We landed on Monday, the 25th...
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    Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-04025-3. Smyth, William Henry (2008) [1867], Sir Edward Belcher (ed.), The Sailor's Word-Book, Project Gutenberg, p. 346 Melville, Herman...
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    Bernard 1846, p. 131 Belcher 1843, p. 158 Waley 1958, p. 141 Bulletins of State Intelligence. Westminster: F. Watts. 1841. Belcher, Edward (1843). Narrative...
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    People Edward Adams Sir Alexander Armstrong Pelham Aldrich Sir Horatio Austin Sir George Back Sir John Barrow Frederick Beechey Sir Edward Belcher David...
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  • Belcher is an English surname of Norman origin. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Belcher (actor) (1872–1943), American film actor Laurence...
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  • Kathleen Belcher's great‑uncle was Capt. Edward Belcher, RN, who achieved renown as a hydrographer and explorer. After his retirement, Belcher devoted...
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    Sir Edward Sabine (/ˈseɪbɪn/; 14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883) was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th president...
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    close friendship with one of the other Royal Navy officers participating, Edward Charlewood. Charlewood and Fitzjames found that contrary to the understanding...
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    of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843-1846". 1848. Campbell...
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    commemorates the British explorer Sir Edward Belcher who performed survey work on the Pacific coast of South America. Belcher's gull grows to a length of about...
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