16 Facts About Coppermine expedition

The expedition was organised by the Royal Navy as part of its attempt to discover and map the Northwest Passage.

The Coppermine expedition captured the public imagination, and in reference to a desperate measure he took while starving, he became known as "the man who ate his boots".

Coppermine expedition was followed in 1789 by Alexander Mackenzie, who traced what is the Mackenzie River to open sea 500 miles west of the mouth of the Coppermine.

Coppermine expedition was to travel overland to Great Slave Lake, and from there go to the coast by way of the Coppermine River.

Coppermine expedition later served as Armourer on HMS Hecla in Captain Parry's 1821 expedition.

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Journey down the Coppermine expedition River took far longer than planned, and Franklin quickly lost faith in his First Nations guides, who in fact knew the area little better than he did, and assured him that the sea was close, then far, then close again.

At the mouth of the Coppermine expedition, Franklin set off east in three canoes with enough food for fourteen days.

Coppermine expedition's compass was of little use as the magnetic deviation for the area was unknown and the constant cloud cover made celestial navigation impossible.

Coppermine expedition staggered on towards Fort Enterprise with his five remaining companions, growing weaker and weaker.

Coppermine expedition told the Britons that he had become separated from the others, and assumed they would be following.

Coppermine expedition disappeared for short periods, refusing to say where he had gone.

Part of the reason was that three of his hunters had been killed when they fell through the ice on a frozen lake, and he had not been supplied with ammunition at Fort Providence, but he admitted the main reason the fort had been abandoned; he had believed that the white men's Coppermine expedition was the height of folly, and that they would not return to Fort Enterprise alive.

Coppermine expedition got nowhere near his goal of Repulse Bay or to meeting up with William Edward Parry's ships.

Simpson, and other fur traders who knew the terrain, were scathing in their descriptions of the Coppermine expedition's poor planning and assessment of Franklin's competence.

Franklin's account of the Coppermine expedition, published in 1823, was regarded as a classic of travel literature, and when the publishing company could not keep up with demand, second-hand copies sold for up to ten guineas.

Story of the Coppermine Expedition served as an influence on Roald Amundsen, who eventually became the first man to navigate the entire Northwest Passage, as well as the first to reach the South Pole.