Glossary of terms from
the Arctic Explorers' narratives

Sources:

Descriptions based on several sources including The Canadian Encyclopedia, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, and numerous websites.

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Places

Athabaska (lake)
Atkinson Island
Bathurst Inlet
Cape Parry
Churchill, MA (port)
Churchill River
Coppermine River
Coronation Gulf
Deas River
Cumberland House
Dolphin and Union Strait

Great Bear Lake
Great Slave Lake
Hershell Island
Fort Chipewyan
Fort Norman
Fort Providence
Fort Resolution
Fort Resolution

Mackenzie River
Nelson River
Norway House
Simpson Strait
Point Turnagain
York Factory

People

Akaitcho
Roald Amundsen
Augustus
Sir Horatio T. Austin
Sir John Barrow
F.W. Beechey
Sir Edward Belcher
Green-stockings
Hearn, Samuel
Junius
William Kennedy
Keskarrah
Sir Leopold McClintock
Mackenzie, Alexander
McVicar
John Rae
Sir John Ross
Sir James C. Ross
Simpson
Wentzel

Things

kaiyacks
tripe de roche
oomiak
pemican

Ships