Bellot Memorial - Greenwich - London, Great Britain.
N 51° 29.017 W 000° 00.472
30U E 707745 N 5707853
Bellot memorial - in honour of Lieutenant Joseph Rene Bellot of the French Navy. Located on the riverside walk, adjacent to The Royal Naval College Greenwich, London.
Waymark Code: WMFQ1H
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/16/2012
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The Bellot memorial commemorates a young French explorer, Joseph Rene Bellot (1826-1853). Made memorable by many discoveries, but notably of the stretch of water now called Bellot Strait.
Bellot also took part in two of the five unsuccessful expeditions sponsored by Lady Franklin to find traces of her husband Sir John Franklin, who had died in his attempt to discover the water route across North America known as the Northwest Passage.
"Bellot Strait is an 18 mile long passage between Prince Regent Inlet and Peel Sound. It was named after Lieutenant Bellot of the French Navy who came across it in 1852." Text Source: (
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Wikipedia informs us (
visit link) The Bellot Strait is a passage of water in Nunavut separating Somerset Island from Murchison Promontory on the Boothia Peninsula, the northernmost part of mainland North America. The 2 km (1.2 mi) wide 25 km long strait connects the Gulf of Boothia and Prince Regent Inlet with Peel Sound and Franklin Strait in northern Canada's Arctic.
The north side of the strait rises steeply to approximately 450 m (1,480 ft), and the south shore to approximately 750 m (2,460 ft). The current in the strait can run at up to 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) and often changes its direction. It is also often filled with small icebergs which pose a danger to ships in the strait.
In 1852, Captain William Kennedy became the first European to sight the Bellot Strait while searching for John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. It was named after Joseph René Bellot, who accompanied Kennedy. The strait was first crossed by the Hudson's Bay Company ship Aklavik in 1937, piloted by Scotty Gall, who travelled from the western shore to the eastern.