View of the Arctic Sea, from the mouth of the Copper Mine River mb-code 269884 England's Paul Gascoigne

England's Paul Gascoigne

View of the Old Fountain Inn

Saturday 12th March 1966

The drawing room in St James's Palace

View of the Arctic Sea, from the mouth of the Copper Mine River mb-code 269884 England's Paul GascoigneThe expedition party reaches the open sea on 20 July 1821, before sailing east in three canoes to chart the unknown coastline. John Franklin's expedition of 1819 22 travelled via the Coppermine River to map the Canadian Arctic coast, as part of efforts to find the fabled North West Passage. Illustration from Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin (London, 1823). Original: aquatint. 1823