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The Arctic Council of 1851: fact or fancy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2004

W. Gillies Ross
W. Gillies Ross
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec J1M 1Z7, Canada
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Abstract

The Arctic Council has often been described as a formal advisory body established by the Admiralty to help direct the search for Sir John Franklin (1847–59), but no such organization existed. The source of the erroneous and misleading notion appears to be a well-known composite portrait painted by Stephen Pearce in 1851. Frequent repetition in publications on Arctic history has perpetuated the error, with imaginative embellishments.

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Polar Record , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 135 - 141
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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