Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Passage by Alan Edwin Day

Author:Alan Edwin Day [Day, Alan Edwin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science, reference, Earth Sciences, Geography, history
ISBN: 9780810854864
Google: 2_l-AAAAMAAJ
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2006-11-15T00:34:54.234573+00:00

If he reached the west coast of America, he was to get to the southward of latitude 40° N, which would complete his task. Then, on his return voyage, he was to closely observe and chart the whole coast of the northwest of America!

The reality was that the 1746–1747 winter was spent at York Factory and was marked by constant friction between Moor and Smith. The following summer, the Dobbs and the California often sailed and explored independently and not in company. The Whale Cove area was reexamined and Chesterfield Inlet was discovered, but despite its initial promise as a westward passage, it proved to be no more than a huge bay. Farther north, Moor took a longboat 150 miles into Wager Inlet as far as Brown Lake only to find that it ended at the mouth of two impassable rivers. After examining almost the entire west coast of Hudson Bay between latitudes 61° N and 65° N with no result, the expedition sailed for England.

In 1749, when giving evidence before a parliamentary committee investigating the condition and trade in the bay, Moor expressed the opinion that if a northwest passage did exist, it was located farther to the north.

MOORE, THOMAS EDWARD LAWS (1819–1872). Captain of HMS Plover, a depot and store ship, Moore sailed from England on 1 January 1848 with orders to search the coast of Alaska eastward to the Mackenzie River for traces of Sir John Franklin’s Third Arctic Expedition. By 13 October he was approaching the Bering Strait, near St. Lawrence Island, when the Plover was caught in strong gale-force winds and forced to the Siberian shore. The local Chukchi inhabitants directed him to a safe winter haven at Port Emma, on the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula, where he spent the winter surveying the harbor and boiling oil from whale blubber.

To investigate Chukchi reports of ships being seen in the vicinity, Moore sent three of his officers on a dogsled journey to East Cape (Cape Dezhnev), 100 miles or so to the north. Leaving on 8 February 1849, with two Chukchi guides and 12 days’ supplies, two of the officers succeeded in reaching the cape before returning to the Plover at the end of March.

Moore was freed from the ice on 13 June and set sail for Kotzebue Sound to rendezvous with HMS Herald (commanded by Henry Kellett). Together with the Nancy Dawson (under Robert Shedden), they sailed northeastward up the west coast of Alaska, past Icy Cape, to Wainwright Inlet. From there, William Pullen embarked on his search expedition along the coast to the Mackenzie River.

MORGAN LE FAY. See FATA MORGANA.

MOURELLE, FRANCISCO ANTONIA (1755–1820). Appointed pilot on board Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra’s Sonora in 1775, Mourelle also accompanied Bodega in the Favorita four years later. With years of distinguished service on voyages to China and the Philippines, with a spell as commandant of the San Blas Naval Department, and with experience in the viceroy’s secretariat restoring order to the mass of

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