biography
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Hayes, Isaac Israel
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1832–81)
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| biography:
| Physician and Arctic explorer, born in Chester Co, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, then volunteered himself as a surgeon, sailing in the Kane expedition (1853–4) searching for the lost Franklin expedition of 1845. Seeking to prove that there were open seas around the North Pole, he led two more expeditions (1860, 1869). His book The Land of Desolation (1871–2) describes his sighting of the open polar sea, but it was later deduced that he saw only the Kennedy Channel between Greenland and Ellesmere I. |
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