Hall, Charles Francis

Hall, Charles Francis

▪ American explorer
born 1821, Rochester, N.H., U.S.
died Nov. 8, 1871, Thank God Harbor, Greenland

      American explorer who made three Arctic expeditions.

      Hall spent his early life in Ohio, where he held such various jobs as those of blacksmith, journalist, stationer, and engraver, before taking an interest in exploration. In 1860 he landed alone from a whaleboat at Frobisher Bay on the southern end of Baffin Island (now in the Northwest Territories, Canada) and spent two years exploring in the bay area, which the English navigator Martin Frobisher had reached in 1578. Hall's purpose was to locate survivors from Sir John Franklin's (Franklin, Sir John) expedition of 1845, but, though he did not succeed in this endeavour, he did find many remains from Frobisher's expedition. After returning home (1862), he wrote Arctic Researches, and Life among the Esquimaux (1865).

      In 1864 Hall returned again to search for survivors from Franklin's voyage. From the north end of Hudson Bay, he began five years and 3,000 miles (4,830 km) of journeying by sledge, in the course of which he learned much about the fate of Franklin's expedition and found a number of relics of the party.

      His final venture was to command a U.S. government-sponsored expedition attempting to reach the North Pole. On June 29, 1871, he sailed from New York City aboard the naval steamer Polaris. Hall passed through the Kennedy and Robeson channels, which separate northwestern Greenland from the northeastern Canadian Arctic, charted both coasts, and reached 82°11′ N, then the northernmost limit of exploration by a ship. The Polaris turned southward and anchored off Greenland at 81°37′ N. From a land base, Hall sledged to 83° N but died suddenly on the return trip.

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