Captain William Edward Parry

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Captain_William_Edward_Parry

GPTKB entity

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instance_of	gptkb:explorer
gptkbp:affiliation	gptkb:Royal_Navy
gptkbp:born	December 3, 1790
gptkbp:children	gptkb:William_Parry
gptkbp:commanded	gptkb:HMS_Fury gptkb:HMS_Hecla
gptkbp:contributed_to	Polar research
gptkbp:died	July 8, 1855
gptkbp:discovered_by	gptkb:Parry_Channel Parry Island
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Captain William Edward Parry
gptkbp:influenced	Subsequent Arctic expeditions
gptkbp:is_explored_in	gptkb:Melville_Island gptkb:Laptev_Sea gptkb:Victoria_Island gptkb:Lancaster_Sound gptkb:Cape_Bathurst gptkb:M'_Clintock_Channel gptkb:Prince_Patrick_Island gptkb:Chukchi_Sea gptkb:Devon_Island gptkb:Greenland gptkb:Hudson_Bay gptkb:Cape_Parry gptkb:Arctic_Ocean gptkb:Banks_Island gptkb:Canadian_Arctic gptkb:Baffin_Island gptkb:King_William_Island gptkb:East_Siberian_Sea gptkb:Baffin_Bay gptkb:Cornwallis_Island gptkb:Fury_and_Hecla_Strait gptkb:Davis_Strait gptkb:Parry_Sound gptkb:Cumberland_Sound gptkb:Barrow_Strait gptkb:Beaufort_Sea gptkb:Ellesmere_Island gptkb:Somerset_Island gptkb:Hudson_Strait gptkb:Beechey_Island Resolute Bay
gptkbp:is_married_to	gptkb:Mary_Parry
gptkbp:known_for	gptkb:region
gptkbp:legacy	Parry Channel named after him
gptkbp:nationality	gptkb:British
gptkbp:notable_burials	gptkb:St._John's_Church,_Hampstead
gptkbp:notable_work	gptkb:Northwest_Passage
gptkbp:received	gptkb:Royal_Geographical_Society_Gold_Medal
gptkbp:served_in	gptkb:British_Royal_Navy
gptkbp:wrote	gptkb:Journal_of_a_Voyage_to_the_North_Pole
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Captain_J._A._Mc_Clintock
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6