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Royal Navy. Service years. 1808–1878. Rank. Admiral. Wars. Napoleonic Wars. Admiral Sir George Back FRS (6 November 1796 – 23 June 1878) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic, naturalist and artist. [1] He was born in Stockport .
Sir George Back was a naval officer who helped to trace the Arctic coastline of North America. He twice accompanied the British explorer John Franklin to Canada’s Northwest Territories (1819–22 and 1825–27) and later conducted two expeditions of his own to the same region.
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Dec 18, 2007 · Back, Sir George. Sir George Back, arctic explorer, naval officer, artist (b at Stockport, Eng 6 Nov 1796; d at London, Eng 23 June 1878). Back made his first voyage N in 1818 and thereafter spent much of his life exploring the Arctic. He was stationed in Halifax in 1814 and accompanied Lt John FRANKLIN to the Coppermine R in 1819.
Source: Link. BACK, Sir GEORGE, naval officer, Arctic explorer, and artist; b. 6 Nov. 1796 in Stockport, England, second son of John and Ann Back; d. 23 June 1878 in London. The heroic exploits of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars stimulated George Back’s desire to go to sea, and a visit to Liverpool confirmed it.
Apr 15, 2020 · Portrait of an Explorer Artist: George Back. Louis Haghe, after George Robert Lewis, George Back Sketching, 1837–45. Lithograph on chine collé, 55.3 x 37.7 cm. Purchased 2019 with contributions from National Gallery of Canada docents, in memory of Martina Todd, fellow volunteer from 1989 to 2019. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Sir George Back, 1796–1878, British explorer in N Canada. He accompanied Sir John Franklin on arctic expeditions in 1818, 1819–22, and 1824–27. On an expedition (1833–35) to search for the missing John Ross, Back explored the Great Fish River (now Back River) and Montreal Island in the present Nunavut ...
Feb 6, 2006 · The river is named for Sir George Back, who first explored it in 1834. The original name was Thlew-ee-choh, likely Dogrib for "great fish river." Back named the lakes after Sir John Henry Pelly and Nicholas Garry, governor and deputy governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and his friend Lieutenant-Colonel Macdougall of the 79th Highlanders.
