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Article: From fury to terror: Francis Crozier is the forgotten man of Arctic and Antarctic discovery. Despite being at the centre of the three great endeavours of 19th-century polar exploration--the Northwest Passage, the North Pole and Antarctica--this remarkable man has been overlooked by history.(Captain Crozier)
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- Geographical
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- March 1, 2008
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The party of about 40 bedraggled British seamen shuffled wearily across the icy wastes of King William Island in the Canadian Arctic. Exhausted and starving, it took everything they had just to keep going.
Then, miraculously, they caught sight of a small band of native Inuit on the ice ahead. One man, a naval officer, approached the natives, rubbing his hand across his stomach and repeatedly saying 'net-chuk', the Inuit words for seal. The Inuit handed over a few scraps of raw meat and calmly walked away, ignoring the desperate appeals and leaving the officer and his men to their fate.
This poignant encounter took place ...