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CHARLES FRANCIS HALL (1821-1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:FRANCIS See also:HALL (1821-1871)  , See also:American See also:Arctic explorer, was See also:born at See also:Rochester, New See also:Hampshire . After following the See also:trade of blacksmith he became a journalist in See also:Cincinnati; but his See also:enthusiasm for Arctic exploration led him in 1859 to volunteer to the American See also:Geographical Society to " go in See also:search for the bones of See also:Franklin." With the proceeds of a public subscription he was equipped for his expedition and sailed in May 186o on See also:board a whaling See also:vessel . The whaler being See also:ice-See also:bound, See also:Hall took up his See also:abode in the regions to the See also:north of See also:Hudson See also:Bay, where he found See also:relics of See also:Frobisher's 16th-See also:century voyages, and living with the See also:Eskimo for two years he acquired a considerable knowledge of their habits and See also:language . He published an See also:account of these experiences under the See also:title of Arctic Researches, and See also:Life among the Esquimaux (1864) . Determined, however, to learn more about the See also:fate of the Franklin expedition he returned to the same regions in 1864, and passing five years among the Eskimo was successful in obtaining a number of Franklin relics, as well as See also:information pointing to the exact fate of 76 of the See also:crew, whilst also performing some geographical See also:work of See also:interest . In 1871 he was given command of the North Polar expedition fitted out by the See also:United States See also:Government in the " Polaris." Making a remarkably rapid passage up See also:Smith See also:Sound at the See also:head of See also:Baffin Bay, which was found to be ice-See also:free, the " Polaris " reached on the 3oth of See also:August the See also:lat. of 82° 11', at that See also:time, and until the See also:English expedition of 1876 the highest See also:northern See also:latitude attained by vessel . The expedition went into See also:winter quarters in a sheltered See also:cove on the See also:Greenland See also:coast .. On the 24th of See also:October, See also:Hail on his return from a successful sledge expedition to the north was suddenly seized by an illness of which he died on the 8th of See also:November . Capt . S . O . Buddington (1823—1888) assumed command, and although the " Polaris " was subsequently lost after breaking out of the ice, with only See also:part of the crew aboard, the whole were ultimately rescued, and the scientific results of the expedition proved to be of considerable importance .

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