Northern regions

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Joseph Hutchins Colton, 1800-1893. Northern regions.
Scale [ca. 1: 22 000 000]. New York, ca. 1855. Plate XII from a Colton atlas.

This polar map shows the advances made during the search for Franklin. The area to the north and east of Ellesmere Island is still blank; it would be filled in during the latter part of the 19th century by British, American, and Norwegian explorers.