biography
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| lived:
| (1789–1857)
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| biography:
| Arctic explorer, born near Whitby, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. As a boy he went with his father to the whaling grounds in the Arctic. He studied at Edinburgh University, and published The Arctic Regions (1820), the first scientific accounts of the Arctic seas and lands. In 1822 he surveyed 400 mi of the E coast of Greenland. He later studied at Cambridge, and was ordained in 1825. In 1856 he gathered valuable data on terrestrial magnetism while voyaging to Australia. |
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