The latest from Franklin Expedition researcher Alison Freebairn: solving the mystery of a fragment of paper found with the remains of Franklin's winter camp on Beechey Island.
The brilliant scholarship of @fabtet is cited as a huge help, and I get a mention in the credits as well, to my delight and surprise although I didn't contribute much. I was thrilled to see Henry TD Le Vesconte cited as a source more than anything!
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John Torrington's family matters
(This is just a concept I thought of when I read the Torrington series post by entwinedmoon and this is based on the Torrington Update post and some information may not be accurate)
John Torrington was just smoking tobacco on the upper deck when William Braine approaches him and starts a conversation with him.
William Braine: Mate, how come you never told me about your family matters? Mr. Hartnell always told me that you are always bummed about it, so would you like to discuss it with me?
John Torrington: Sure, but yeah, it's kind of complicated
William Braine: How? I heard that your sister had the middle name of Mary, what's yours?
John Torrington: Well......in our early records we were listed as Shaw Torrington, Shaw is always are assumed middle name, so when my sister Esther had a middle name of Mary, it's unclear if Mary is truly her middle name or if it's just another first name or if Shaw Torrington was our shared last name.
William Braine: Oh ok, well I heard that your sister married this year, what is the reason and is that why you're bummed about it too?
John Torrington: Um......it's out of love and something hanky panky was going on before they married, so yeah, that......
William Braine: Oh, but I heard that you married a woman named Elizabeth Browning, is that true?
John Torrington starts to become agitated
John Torrington: NO! No!! That is a fanfiction! Stop passing that off as real!!
William Braine: Woah woah woah, chill out mate.......Just by the thought of it, yeah, it does seem concerning given our society expectations.
John Torrington: Well I would be concerned if our society norms are just getting very weird
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Unironically one of my favorite AMC’s The Terror (2018) experiences is seeing people experience The Mummies for the first time
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The accompanying sketch of Whitsunday Island in the Pacific, copied from Capt. Beechey's admirable Voyage, gives but a faint idea of the singular aspect of an atoll: it is one of the smallest size, and has its narrow islets united together in a ring.
"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin
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He who compares these three accounts will, I think, form a tolerably accurate conception of the present state of Tahiti.
"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin
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Gull Watching from Beechey Head
Are you good at identifying gulls? Perhaps you're looking for a challenge? Beechey Head in East Sooke Regional Park, Vancouver Island, BC is a great place to view gulls flying over the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Most people visit Beechey Head for the spectacular views out of the Strait of Juan de Fuca or the interesting botany. This viewpoint in East Sooke Regional Park is also an excellent place to view the turkey vulture and hawk migration in the fall. The Head represents one side of the narrowest gaps between Vancouver Island and Washington State. Raptors and vultures stage here in large kettles prior…
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Y’all are really eating up that Beechey Island google reviews post :)
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i want to make a terrorsona like all my terror mutuals but i feel weird about altering canon too much with the presence of my own guy so i've compromised by making him a ghost who died early in the voyage and now appears to people in all his frozen corpsely glory when they're going to die. his name is felix shaw and he broke his neck slipping on an ice shelf while they were overwintering on beechey island. he's a kindly psychopomp who wants to save at least one of his friends from a terrible fate, or failing that provide them with some comfort close to the end, but his ghoulish appearance and the doomed nature of the expedition mean that he's unlikely to have much success with either. he's terrified of tuunbaq because it's the one thing that can still hurt him.
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Beechey Island, winter 1845/1846. James has some questions
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