Four years later, two ships hove into view in an isolated part of the Canadian Arctic, near Igloolik in Foxe Basin. The commander, William Edward Parry, in charge of the Fury, had been second in command on Ross’s expedition to Greenland. The two ships had spent the previous winter at an island the explorers called Winter Island, east of Repulse Bay at the mouth of an inlet that Parry named after Lyon. Parry and Lyon would now search for it in the little-known waters of Foxe Basin. Despite the language barrier that separated the two races, the Inuit viewed Parry as their kin.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 08, 2021 18:56 UTC