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HMS Fury and Hecla 1824-5

In 1824, HMS Fury and HMS Hecla formed William Parry's third Northwest Passage expedition, spending a winter in the Canadian Arctic. Several logs from this expedition are in the ADM55 collection but only that of Lieutenant Austin of the Fury contained any meteorological observations, and that only covered the first part of the voyage. So we have used observations from a published account of the expedition as well.
 We have then converted these data into the standard IMMA format for analysis and archiving.

From Lieutenant Austin's log:
From the published account:

Analysis

 Comparing the observed sea temperatures and air temperatures with typical values for the recent past (1961-90 normals) give a picture of the weather in the Canadian Arctic in 1824-5 - an area where no observations were previously available. (Detailed analysis .)

Voyage of the Hecla to Port Bowen in 1824-5.
View observations in Google Earth


 

Air temperatures experienced by the ships on the voyage:
Observed (Austin's log - blue dots, published account - red dots) and modern equivalent (black line).

Subpages (1): HMS Fury and Hecla 1824-5 - Analysis

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  • ADM_55_56_HMS_Fury_0400_0467_(2).txt - on 5 Oct 2009 07:15 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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  • ADM_55_56_HMS_Fury_0400_0467_(2).xls - on 5 Oct 2009 07:15 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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  • Fury_Hecla_1824-5.kmz - on 5 Oct 2009 07:25 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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  • Hecla_1824-5.kmz - on 13 Aug 2009 02:51 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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  • VOYAGE_TO_THE_ARCTIC-1824-1825_THIRD_VOYAGE_PARRY.xls - on 13 Aug 2009 02:49 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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  • VOYAGE_TO_THE_ARCTIC-1824-1825_THIRD_VOYAGE_PARRY_1824+5.txt - on 13 Aug 2009 02:50 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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  • VOYAGE_TO_THE_ARCTIC-1824-1825_THIRD_VOYAGE_PARRY_1824.txt - on 13 Aug 2009 02:49 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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  • fury_1824.imma - on 5 Oct 2009 07:15 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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  • fury_to_imma.perl - on 5 Oct 2009 07:15 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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  • hecla_1824-5.imma - on 5 Oct 2009 07:15 by Philip Brohan (version 2 / earlier versions)
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  • hecla_to_imma.perl - on 13 Aug 2009 02:50 by Philip Brohan (version 1)
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