Boothia Peninsula

I had to remember that my characters wouldn't have had that news because they're stuck there.

So the way that they're referring to all these land masses and these routes and basically their understanding of the geography of the area is like, all over the place batshit insane basically they have no solid idea of a lot of things um like there's this one particular bit where they cross the bellow strait um which is like this strait of water between uh the boothia peninsula and somerset island and sort of at the time the map from around 1852, Schroeder shows like a vague, we're not sure, we think these are two separate things, but we're not entirely certain.

And the straight that they cross, they are unaware that basically that same year, a different expedition out there has already come across it.

And it's now got a name.

He imagined that the magnetic poles coincided with the geographical poles; but, as a matter of fact, they do not, and, moreover, they are slowly moving round the geographical poles, hence the declination of the needle, that is to say, its angle of divergence from the true meridian or north-and-south line, is gradually changing.

The north magnetic pole of the earth was actually discovered by Sir John Ross north of British America, on the coast of Boothia, latitude 70° 5' N., longitude 96° 46' W., where, as foreseen, the needle entirely lost its directive property and stood upright, or, so to speak, on its head.

The south magnetic pole lies in the Prince Albert Range of Victoria Land, and was almost reached by Sir James Clark Ross.

The magnetism of the earth is such as might be produced by a powerful magnet inside; but its origin is unknown, although there is reason to believe that masses of loadstone or magnetic iron exist in the crust.

He imagined that the magnetic poles coincided with the geographical poles; but, as a matter of fact, they do not, and, moreover, they are slowly moving round the geographical poles: hence the declination of the needle, that is to say, its angle of divergence from the true meridian or north-and-south line, is gradually changing.

The north magnetic pole of the earth was actually discovered by Sir John Ross north of British America, on the coast of Boothia, latitude 70° 5' N., longitude 96° 46' W., where, as foreseen, the needle entirely lost its directive property and stood upright, or, so to speak, on its head.

The south magnetic pole lies in the Prince Albert Range of Victoria Land, and was almost reached by Sir James Clark Ross.

The magnetism of the earth is such as might be produced by a powerful magnet inside; but its origin is unknown, although there is reason to believe that masses of lodestone or magnetic iron exist in the crust.

He was, in the assessment of many modern historians, the most competent European Arctic traveler of his era.

In the spring of 1854, while surveying the coast of the Boothia Peninsula on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company, Rae encountered a group of Inuit near Pelly Bay on the western shore of the peninsula.

They were Netsilik Inuit, members of the communities whose territory included King William Island and the surrounding coast, the very region where the Franklin expedition had met its end.

The Inuit had items that clearly came from the Franklin expedition.

There was the navigable passage before them.

But, alas, the chart-makers had drawn an isthmus, which only existed in their imagination, connecting Boothia with King William Land.

So they altered their course to the west and were lost.

Soon the ships were surrounded by a dense ice-pack and were dangerously imprisoned.