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The county of Nares is a cadastral division of Queensland which contains the city of Cairns, Innisfail and most of the Atherton Tableland. The county is divided into civil parishes. It was named after George Nares (1831–1915), a naval officer and commander of HMS Salamander.
Nares Land or Naresland is an island in far northern Greenland. The island is named after Polar explorer Sir George Nares. Geography. The island lies between the Victoria Fjord and the Nordenskjöld Fjord separated from the Freuchen Land Peninsula of the mainland by a narrow sound. Stephenson Island and John Murray Island lie off its ...
- 1,466 km² (566 sq mi)
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- 1,067 m (3501 ft)
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Nares (in inglese Naresland) è un'isola disabitata della Groenlandia. Geografia. Nares ha una superficie di 1466 km² ed è situata nel Parco nazionale della Groenlandia nordorientale, fuori da qualsiasi comune e raggiunge un'altezza massima di 1.067 metri s.l.m. Collegamenti esterni
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He was born on 24 April 1831, the third son and sixth child of Commander William Henry Nares, a British naval officer, and Elizabeth Rebecca Gould, at Llansenseld, near Abergavenny in Monmouthshire. He was baptised at the church of St Bridget, Llansanffraid on 22 May. He married Mary Grant, the eldest daughter of a Portsmouth banker, on 22 June 1858. They had four sons and six daughters.His two youngest sons, George Edward Nares and John Dodd Nares entered the Royal Navy.
Education and early naval career
He was educated at the Royal Naval School in New Cross in south London, and in 1845 joined the Royal Navy aboard HMS Canopus, an old battleship captured from the French. Following a posting to HMS Havannahon the Australian station in 1848, during which he served as both midshipman and mate, he returned in 1851 and passed his lieutenant's exam in 1852.
First Arctic experience
While returning to England in Havannah in 1851, Nares had met Commander George Henry Richards, a future Hydrographer of the Navy, who had suggested he apply to Sir Edward Belcher for a place on his search for Sir John Franklin. Nares was accepted as the second mate of Resolute, and thus gained valuable early experience of the Arctic during the 1852–1854 expedition.
Among others, the following features are named after Nares: 1. Nares Landin Greenland 2. Nares Straitbetween Ellesmere Island and Greenland 3. Mount Nares, part of the Churchill Mountains in Antarctica 4. Nares Lake in southern Yukon between Bennett Lake and Tagish Lake 5. Nares Deep, the deepest part of the North Atlantic 6. Nares Cape, on Ellesme...
Bibliography
1. Coleman, E. C. (2006). The Royal Navy in Polar Exploration from Franklin to Scott. Tempus.[ISBN missing] 2. Nares, G. S. (1860). The Naval Cadet’s Guide, or Seaman’s Companion. Portsea.[ISBN missing] 3. Nares, G. S. Feilden, H. W. (1878). Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875–6 in H.M. Ships Alert and Discovery[ISBN missing]
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Nares (in inglese Naresland) – isola disabitata della Groenlandia Stretto di Nares – braccio di mare che separa la Groenlandia (Terra Knud Rasmussen, Terra di Inglefield, Penisola di Hayes) dall'isola di Ellesmere, Canada
The county of Nares is a cadastral division of Queensland which contains the city of Cairns, Innisfail and most of the Atherton Tableland. The county is divided into civil parishes. It was named after George Nares (1831–1915), a naval officer and commander of HMS Salamander.
Nares Land is fairly large, with an area of 1,466 square kilometres (566 square miles) and a shoreline of 192.4 kilometres (119.6 miles). [1] It is 75 kilometres (47 miles) long and up to 30 kilometres (19 miles) wide in its widest place. It has an average elevation of 161 metres (528 feet) and its highest point is 1,067 metres (3,501 feet). [2]
