Joseph-René Bellot
Joseph-René Bellot (born March 18, 1826 in Paris , † August 18, 1853 in the Arctic ) was a French naval officer and polar explorer .
Live and act
Bellot was born the son of a farrier . In 1831 the family moved from Paris to Rochefort . From the age of 15 he attended the Naval School ( Ecole Navale ) in Brest .
In 1845 he took part in an Anglo-French expedition to Madagascar . He was then a member of an Anglo-French expedition, which brought extensive knowledge about the usefulness of the Río Paraná for commercial shipping.
In 1851/52 he joined William Kennedy's expedition , which set out on the Prince Albert to find the missing John Franklin . Although this project could not be achieved, a waterway was discovered instead, which Kennedy named after the French Bellotstrasse . In 1853 , Bellot , who had meanwhile been promoted to lieutenant , participated again in a search mission for John Franklin, this time alongside Edward A. Inglefield . The search for Franklin was again unsuccessful. When he wanted to bring letters to Edward Belcher's Assistance , he came across a floating ice floe on August 17th while marching across the pack ice of the Wellington Canal with two men . When he wanted to investigate the situation the next morning, he disappeared, only his stick was found on a neighboring floe. It is believed that he got into a crevice between the clods and drowned.
Monuments and honors
A memorial was erected in Bellot's honor at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich , London . Another memorial was erected near the place where he died on Beechey Island .
The lunar crater Bellot was named after Bellot in 1935 .
Awards
- Cross of the Legion of Honor for services to the Madagascar expedition (1845)
Fonts
- Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph René Bellot. 2 volumes. London 1855. ( Digitized Volume 1 ) ( Digitized Volume 2 )
literature
- Clive Holland: Bellot, Joseph-René . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . tape 8: 1851-1860 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1985, ISBN 0-8020-3422-5 ( English , French ).
- Ian D. Hodkinson: Bellot, Joseph-René . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York / London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 227–228 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Bellot, Joseph René . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 704 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bellot, Joseph-René |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French naval officer and polar explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1853 |
| Place of death | Arctic , in the Wellington Channel near Beechey Island |