What is recorded here
Dr John Rae 1813-1893. Arctic Explorer 1846-1854. .......... In 1854, he discovered Rae Strait the last link in the first navigable North-West Passage between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans & the demise of the ill-fated Franklin expedition.
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