Template:Did you know nominations/1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole
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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 08:35, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
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1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole
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HMS Racehorse and HMS Carcass stuck in the ice
- ... that the ships of the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole (pictured) got stuck in the ice north of Svalbard? Source: p. 417-419 of Ann Savours article about the Phipps expedition
- ALT1:... that in 1773, the Royal Navy instructed Constantine Phipps to sail to the North Pole, but no further? Source: Ann Savours, p. 409
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Nelson and the bear, by Richard Westall
- ALT2:... that a story about Horatio Nelson chasing a polar bear (pictured) during the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole started circulating in 1800? Source: " It was not until 1800 that the first account of the ‘incident,’ as it is now known, was published in a sketch of Nelson’s life in the Naval Chronicle, when Skeffington Lutwidge provided a new version of events for that journal:", Lewis-Jones, Huw W.G. (October 2005), "Nelson and the bear: the making of an Arctic myth", Polar Record, 41 (4), pp. 335–353, doi:10.1017/S0032247405004675.
Moved to mainspace by Kusma (talk). Self-nominated at 14:59, 19 May 2021 (UTC).
- Various other image and hook possibilities here. For example, this is the expedition on which the polar bear was given its scientific name. —Kusma (t·c) 15:10, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Date, size, refs, hook, neutrality, copyvio spotcheck, etc. all GTG. QPQ done. Both hooks are nice, I find the first one funnier, but the second one has arguably a better image. Shrug, something for the closing admin to toss a coin for, I guess :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:05, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
