KABLOONAS

KABLOONAS
Burial of John Franklin. Author: me

KABLOONAS

Kabloonas is the way in which the Inuit who live in the north part of Canada call those who haven´t their same ascendency.

The first time i read this word was in the book "Fatal Passage" by Ken McGoogan, when, as the result of the conversations between John Rae and some inuit, and trying to find any evidence of the ill-fated Sir John Franklin Expedition, some of then mentioned that they watched how some kabloonas walked to die in the proximities of the river Great Fish.

I wish to publish this blog to order and share all those anecdotes that I´ve been finding in the arctic literature about arctic expeditions. My interest began more than 15 years ago reading a little book of my brother about north and south pole expeditions. I began reading almost all the bibliography about Antarctic expeditions and the superknown expeditions of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, etc. After I was captured by the Nansen, Nobile and Engineer Andree. But the most disturbing thing in that little book, full of pictures, was the two pages dedicated to the last Franklin expedition of the S.XIX, on that moment I thought that given the time on which this and others expeditions happened, few or any additional information could be obtained about it. I couldn´t imagine that after those two pages It would be a huge iceberg full of stories, unresolved misteries, anecdotes, etc. I believe that this iceberg, on the contrary than others, would continue growing instead melting.



jueves, 5 de enero de 2012

DESAPARICIÓN DE JOSEPH RENÉ BELLOT

Es triste la historia de este hombre que desapareció en una misión de aprovisionamiento a la desastrosa expedición de cinco buques de Edward Belcher que partió en 1852 para buscar a J.F. .

En 1853 la expedición en la que participaba Bellot alcanzó la isla de Beechey (donde se encuentran las tres tumbas de los primeros tripulantes que murieron de la expedición de J.F.) allí encontraron uno de los buques de Belcher, el North Star, donde les informaron de que el resto de buques estaban desperdigados y atrapados por la zona.

El comandante de la expedición de Bellot, E.A.Inglefield, mandó a Bellot con cuatro hombres para tratar de mandar un mensaje a Belcher. Al parecer, y dada la epoca del año, se desprendió un témpano con Bellot y dos hombres más sobre el. Tuvieron que pernoctar en él, y a la mañana siguiente cuando Bellot salió a inspeccionar el estado del hielo este se partió de nuevo y Bellot desapareció. Los supervivientes mencionaron que vieron su bastón clavado en un témpano próximo.
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