ABSTRACT
During the nineteenth century, Arctic exploration captured public attention in much the same way that exploration of space fascinated in the second half of the twentieth century. Both had the same elements: uncertainty, vast unknown spaces, beauty, terror, and sometimes death. Newspaper readers hung on every printed word in the same way they clung to the video tube in 1969 when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. A major difference, however, was that while they kept pace with events in real time, their forebears learned of triumph or tragedy only months or years later. The analogy between Arctic and space exploration even extends to what they call "technology transfer." By 1864, Charles Francis Hall had raised sufficient funds to finance a second expedition. Between 1864 and 1869, he explored Melville Peninsula, Boothia Peninsula, and King William Island. There he found skeletal remains and other relics of the Franklin expedition.
