William Barr

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William Barr is affiliated with the following schools: McGill University, University of Aberdeen, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Saskatchewan

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According to Wikipedia, William Barr is a Scottish historian with a specific interest in the history of exploration of the Arctic, and to a lesser degree, the Antarctic. He holds degrees in Geography from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and McGill University, Montreal, Canada. From 1968 until 1999 he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada and is now a professor emeritus there.

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Postglacial Isostatic Movement in Northeastern Devon Island: A Reappraisal (1971) (39)
Back from the Brink: The Road to Muskox Conservation in the Northwest Territories (1991) (27)
Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884 : journals and letters (1998) (24)
The Voyage of Sibiryakov, 1932 (1978) (23)
Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880 (1987) (22)
Postglacial Isostatic Movement in Northeastern Devon Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1966) (18)
Geographical Aspects of the First International Polar Year, 1882–1883 (1983) (14)
To the sixth continent: The second German south polar expedition (1994) (12)
The Eighteenth Century Trade between the Ships of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Hudson Strait Inuit (1994) (12)
Claudian's Panegyric on the fourth consulate of Honorius (1981) (12)
Rusanov, Gerkules, and the Northern Sea Route (1974) (8)
The Arctic cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco (2008) (8)
South to Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa! The Cruise of Sv. Anna and Al’banov’s Sledge Journey, 1912-14 (1975) (8)
Chukchi Sea, Southern Ocean, Kara Sea: the polar voyages of Captain Eduard Dallmann, whaler, trader, explorer 1830–96 (2004) (8)
The fate of Rusanov's Gerkules expedition in the Kara Sea, 1913; Some Further details and recent developments (1984) (8)
The Shipping Crisis in the Soviet Eastern Arctic at the Close of the 1983 Navigation Season (1985) (8)
Imperial Russia's Pioneers in Arctic Aviation (1985) (7)
‘The last duty of an officer’: Lieutenant de vaisseau Joseph-René Bellot, 1826–1853, in the Franklin Search (2013) (7)
Sedov’s Expedition to the North Pole 1912-1914 (1973) (7)
The career and disappearance of Hans K.E. Krüger, Arctic geologist, 1886–1930 (1993) (6)
Early photographers of the Arctic (1996) (6)
Baron Eduard von Toll's Last Expedition: The Russian Polar Expedition, 1900-1903 (1981) (6)
The Crimean War in the Arctic: the Russian viewpoint (1984) (6)
Trent, McGill, and the North: A Story of Canada's Growth as a Sovereign Polar Nation, by Peter Adams (2009) (5)
Arctic Hell-Ship: The Voyage of HMS Enterprise 1850-1855 (2007) (5)
Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP (2004) (5)
The voyages of Taymyr and Vaygach to Ostrov Vrangelya, 1910–15 (1972) (5)
Meta Incognita: a discourse of discovery. Martin Frobisher's Arctic expeditions, 1576–1578 . Thomas Symons (Editor). 1999. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization. 2 volumes, xlvi + 636 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-660-17507-X (set). (2000) (5)
Aleksandr Vasil'yevich Kolchak: Arctic Scientist and Explorer (1981) (4)
Discovery of one of Sir John Franklin's ships (2014) (4)
The Use of Dog Sledges during the British Search for the Missing Franklin Expedition in the North American Arctic Islands, 1848–59 (2009) (4)
The First Soviet Convoy to the Mouth of the Lena (1982) (4)
‘The cold of Valparaiso’: the disintegration of William Kennedy's second Franklin search expedition, 1853–1854 (1998) (3)
A new genus and species of Epiphloeinae from Brazil (Coleoptera: Cleridae) (2006) (3)
John Rae to be honoured in Westminster Abbey–but not for discovering the northwest passage (2014) (3)
Robert Stein's expedition to Ellesmere Island 1899–1901 (1982) (3)
The introduced muskoxen of Poluostrov Taymyr (1988) (3)
Wettertrupp Haudegen: the last German Arctic weather station of World War II: Part 2 (1986) (3)
Pioneer whalers in the Ross Sea, 1923–33 (2005) (3)
Resolute : The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship, by Martin W. Sandler (2009) (3)
The First Tourist Cruise in the Soviet Arctic (1980) (3)
Franklin in Siberia? - Lieutenant Bedford Pim's Proposal to Search the Arctic Coast of Siberia, 1851-52 (1992) (3)
Charles Bénard's first expedition to Novaya Zemlya, 1908 (1987) (3)
An Arctic Whaling Diary. The Journal of Captain George Comer in Hudson Bay 1903-1905, edited by W. Gillies Ross (1985) (3)
Aleksandr Stepanovich Kuchin: the Russian who went south with Amundsen (1985) (3)
First landings on Zavodovski Island, South Sandwich Islands, 1819 (2000) (3)
South Georgia : gateway to Antarctica (2003) (3)
"Structurally-controlled fluvioglacial erosion features near Schefferville, Québec" (1969) (3)
The Drift and Rescue of Solovei Budimirovich in the Kara Sea, January-June 1920 (1978) (3)
Discovery of the wreck of the Soviet steamer Chelyuskin on the bed of the Chukchi Sea (2007) (3)
THE FRANZ JOSEF LAND ARCHIPELAGO: E.B. BALDWIN'S JOURNAL OF THE WELLMAN POLAR EXPEDITION 1898–1899. P.J. Capelotti (Editor). 2004. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland and Co. ix+186p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-7864-1776-5 (2005) (3)
A Geomorphological Study of Post-Glacial Uplift with Reference to Arctic Canada (1972) (3)
Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage, by Ken McGoogan (2018) (3)
William Robert Hobson (1831-1880) (1986) (3)
Elephant Island and Beyond: The Life and Diaries of Thomas Orde Lees, by John Thomson (2004) (3)
Otto Sverdrup to the Rescue of the Russian Imperial Navy (1974) (3)
The First Soviet High-latitude Expedition (1977) (2)
Alfred de Quervain's Swiss Greenland expeditions, 1909 and 1912 (2014) (2)
Zoological observations, Royal Bay, South Georgia 1882–1883. Part 2. (1984) (2)
Franklin's Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of H.M.S. Erebus , by John Geiger and Alanna Mitchell (2016) (2)
Aleksandr Lavrent'yevich Chekanovskiy, Pioneer Geologist and Explorer of North Central Siberia, 1873-76 (1991) (2)
THE ARCTIC JOURNALS OF JOHN RAE . Ken McGoogan (editor). Victoria BC: TouchWood Editions. 312 p, softcover. ISBN 978-1-927129-74-6. CA$ 19.95. (2015) (2)
Operation “Wunderland”: Admiral Scheer in the Kara Sea, August 1942 (1975) (2)
The Yukon Relief Expedition and the Journal of Carl Johan Sakariassen, edited by V.R. Rausch and D.L. Baldwin (2003) (2)
The Helgoland Expedition to Svalbard: Die Deutsche Expedition in das Nördliche Eismeer, 1889 (1988) (2)
The Drift of Lenin 's Convoy in the Laptev Sea, 1937-1938 (1980) (2)
The contribution of Alexander von Middendorff to the exploration of the Taymyr Peninsula in 1843 (1993) (2)
A Tsarist Attempt at Opening the Northern Sea Route: The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition, 1910-1915 (1975) (2)
First voyage to the Kolyma: The Soviet North-East Polar Expedition 1932–33 (1979) (2)
The Last Journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, 1919 (1983) (2)
Searching for Franklin : the land Arctic searching expedition : James Anderson's and James Stewart's expeditions via the Back River, 1855 (1999) (2)
Searching for Franklin where he was ordered to go: Captain Erasmus Ommanney's sledging campaign to Cape Walker and beyond, spring 1851 (2016) (2)
Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane, by Ken McGoogan (2009) (1)
General Miller's flight from Arkhangel'sk, February 1920 (1980) (1)
Polarfahrer: Im Banne der Arktis [Polar Traveller: Under the Spell of the Arctic], by Theodor Lerner and edited by Frank Berger (2009) (1)
Misinterpretation and obfuscation (2014) (1)
LUCILIUS AND ACCIUS (2016) (1)
Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73 (2016) (1)
Searching for Franklin from Australia: William Parker Snow's initiative of 1853 (1997) (1)
Background to Aleksandr Vasil'yevich Kolchak's expedition to Bennett Island, 1903 (1992) (1)
Background to the German expedition to Clearwater Fiord, Baffin Island, as part of the first International Polar year 1882–83 (1992) (1)
A new island in Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa [Franz Josef Land] (2015) (1)
Identification of the Franklin expedition wreck (2014) (1)
An introduction to Aleksandr Fedorovich Middendorf [Alexander Theodor von Middendorff] and his expedition to taymyr 1843 (1991) (1)
Richard Cyriax's note concerning Thomas Simpson's claim of having discovered the Northwest Passage (2000) (1)
Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England. A Catalogue, edited by Clive Holland (1982) (1)
Of Maps and Men: The Mysterious Discovery of Antarctica, by John G. Weihaupt (2014) (1)
Devon Island Programs, 1966 (1967) (1)
The last known letter of Joseph-René Bellot (1986) (1)
A further note on the Beechey Island memorials (2007) (1)
Canada's Forgotten Arctic Hero: George Rice and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition 1881–1884, by Jim Lotz (2011) (1)
Lying between the Kara Sea to the west and the Laptev Sea to the east, and (2016) (0)
Inuvialuit Archaeological Partnership (IAP), a community- based archaeology program she has collaborated on with the Inuvialuit of the lower Mackenzie River and adjacent Beaufort Sea in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The approach to the community-based archaeological prac- (2014) (0)
Stephen R. Bown, The Last Viking. The Life of Roald Amundsen (2013) (0)
Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) (1987) (0)
Background to Captain Hegemann's account of the voyage of Hansa and of the ice‐drift (1993) (0)
Boris Aleksandrovich Kremer (1908–76)—Polyarnik (2018) (0)
Background to Hertha‘s Arctic voyage, 1915 (1991) (0)
Background to Otto Sverdrup's voyage in the Kara Sea on board eclipse in 1914–1915 (1991) (0)
Claudian, De Raptu Proserpinae. Ed. J. B. Hall (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 11). Cambridge: the University Press, 1969. Pp. ix + 252. £4·50. (1971) (0)
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time, by Michael Palin (2019) (0)
HORACE Sermones, I. X. 64-67 (2016) (0)
Encyclopedia of the Arctic, edited by Mark Nuttall (2010) (0)
Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1918: A Story of Exploration, Science and Sovereignty, by Stuart E. Jenness (2013) (0)
Pioneer measurements of sea-ice thickness in the Canadian Arctic 1850–1852 (1999) (0)
The role of independent traders in the near-extermination of muskoxen on the mainland tundra of Canada, 1892–1915 (1995) (0)
The voyage of Willim Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747 (1995) (0)
The log of the Scotia by William Speirs Bruce. Peter Speak (editor). 1992. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 306 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-7486-0293-3. £85.00. (1993) (0)
Discovery of one of Sir John Franklin's ships– CORRIGENDUM (2014) (0)
Eutropius J. Long: Claudian's In Eutropium: Or How, When and Why to Slander a Eunuch . Pp. xiv + 291. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Cased, $45. ISBN: 0-8078-2263-9. (1998) (0)
Discovering the north-west passage. The four-year Arctic odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure expedition. Glenn M. Stein. 2015. Jefferson: McFarland & Co. 388 p, illustrated, softcover. ISBN 978-0-7864-7708-1. $39.95 (2016) (0)
Timber bridges: clots in the arteries? (2004) (0)
The Dew-line anticipated: watching for Andrée in the Canadian north (1988) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
The Soviet contribution to the Italia search and rescue, 1928 (1977) (0)
Northward Ho! A Voyage towards the North Pole 1773. Catalogue to the Exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby 2010, with contributions by Ann Savours, Sophie Forgan, and Glyn Williams (2010) (0)
New Wales, New Denmark, or New Yorkshire (1983) (0)
Devon Island Programs, 1967 (1968) (0)
Gyrfalcons to Germany: Herdemerten's expedition to west Greenland, 1938 (2010) (0)
Soviet cruise liner in collision with an ice floe near Svalbard, June 1989 (1990) (0)
Muskoxen and their hunters: a history . Peter C. Lent. 1999. Norman, Oklahoma: Oklahoma University Press (Animal Natural History Series 5). xi + 324 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-8061 -3170-5. $US57.50. (2001) (0)
The site of Fort Magnesia, Payer Harbour, Pirn Island, NWT (1990) (0)
German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870–1940, by David T. Murphy (2002) (0)
Shturman Albanov: a new Russian icebreaking tanker (2016) (0)
JOHN RAE'S ARCTIC CORRESPONDENCE 1844–1855 . Ken McGoogan (editor). 2014. Victoria B.C: TouchWood Editions. xii + 494 p, illustrated, softcover. ISBN 978-1-77151-084-4. CA$21.95. (2015) (0)
ON SITE WITH MAURICE HAYCOCK, ARTIST OF THE ARCTIC: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS OF HISTORICAL SITES IN THE CANADIAN ARCTIC . Maurice Haycock. Kathy Haycock (Editor). 2007. Campbellville, ON: Edgar Kent Publishers. 112 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 978-0-88866-655-0. (2009) (0)
The ' ' IMPERIAL ' ' TROMBONE�POST ORDE R S NOW forthe choice of leading b a n d s � t he season ' s ACCESSORIES (2015) (0)
Claudian's in Eutropium: Or How, When and Why to Slander a Eunuch. J Long (1998) (0)
UNKNOWN WATERS: A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORIC UNDER-ICE SURVEY OF THE SIBERIAN CONTINENTAL SHELF BY USS QUEENFISH (SSN-651) . Alfred S. McLaren. 2008. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. xxiv + 243 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 978-0-8173-1602-0. (2009) (0)
The ice master: the doomed 1913 voyage of the Karluk . Jennifer Niven. 2000. London: Macmillan. xiv+402 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-333- 77060-6, £16.99. (2002) (0)
Arctic Travel Collection (1990) (0)
Otto Sverdrup (1854-1930) (1984) (0)
Eastbound Through Siberia: Observations From the Great Northern Expedition, by Georg Wilhelm Steller (2022) (0)
The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916, by Stuart E. Jenness (2009) (0)
The Legal Status of the Northern Sea Route (1979) (0)
Dead silence: the greatest mystery in Arctic discovery . John Geiger and Owen Beattie. 1993. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 219p, illustrated, hardcover. ISBN 0-7475-1185-3. £16. 99. (1994) (0)
Early 19th century Russian voyages through Bering Strait (1987) (0)
The Amundsen Photographs, edited and introduced by Roland Huntford (1988) (0)
The commercial trade in muskox hides in the Northwest Territpries 1860 - 1916 (1991) (0)
Earl Grey: a name to live up to (1987) (0)
The Arctic: The Complete Story, by Richard Sale (2009) (0)
The voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 (1994) (0)
The Franz Boas Enigma: Inuit, Arctic, and Sciences, by Ludger Müller-Wille (2014) (0)
Confirmation of the identity of the wreck of the steamer Chelyuskin (2007) (0)
Christopher Middleton (ca. 1690-1770) (1983) (0)
Inuit and whalers on Baffin Island through German eyes : Wilhelm Weike's Arctic journal and letters, 1883-1884 (2011) (0)
The exploration of Northern Canada 500 to 1920, a chronology: Alan Cooke and Clive Holland (Eds), (Toronto: The Arctic History Press, 1978. Pp. 549. Can $60·00) (1979) (0)
Dr. John Rae's Telegraph Survey: St. Paul, Minnesota to Quesnel, British Columbia, 1864 (1999) (0)
Shipwrecked on Mansel Island, Hudson Bay: Dr Henry Brietzcke's Arctic health cruise, 1864 (1992) (0)
Nimrod: Ernest Shackleton and the Extraordinary Story of the 1907–09 British Antarctic Expedition, by Beau Riffenburgh (2010) (0)
Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers, by Dorothy Harley Eber (2010) (0)
Harpoon guns, the lost Greenland settlement, and penal colonies: George Manby's Arctic obsessions (2001) (0)
The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R.A., the Naturalist in H.M.S. Alert, 1875–1876, edited by Trevor H. Levere (2021) (0)
Cook & Peary: the polar controversy resolved. Robert M. Bryce. 1997. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, xviii + 1133 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-8117-0317-7. £35.00; $US49.95. (1998) (0)
Phase 1 Marine Archeological Remote Sensing Survey of the Calcasieu River Saltwater Barrier Repair Project (1999) (0)
Mikula: a Canadian icebreaker repatriated (1982) (0)
14 Months on Franz Josef Land, by Mykhailo Ivanychuk; edited and translated by Gloria K. Atamanenko (2010) (0)
Background to B. A. Vil'kitskiy's assessments of the Soviet Kara Sea operations in 1920 and 1921 (1992) (0)
James Fitzjames: The Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition, by William Battersby (2011) (0)
Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer, by P.J. Capelotti (2013) (0)
Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942, by Thaddeus D. Novak and edited by P.J. Capelotti (2009) (0)
Phase I Marine and Terrestrial Cultural Resources Survey of 13 Project Items Located on Marsh Island, Iberia Parish, Louisiana. (1999) (0)
The retreat from Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa [Franz Josef Land]: the diary of Lieutenant Carl Weyprecht of the Austro-Hungarian north pole expedition, 20 May–3 September 1874 (2010) (0)
The Soviet career of the schooner Polar Bear, 1925-28 (1988) (0)
Intact baby mammoth discovered in Yamal peninsula, western Siberia (1990) (0)
William Peter Adams (1936–2018) (2018) (0)
Phase I Remote Sensing Marine Archeological Survey for the Medora Crossing Soft Dike Construction Project, Mississippi River, Louisiana. (1999) (0)
By airship to the North Pole: an archaeology of human exploration . P. J. Capelotti. 1999. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, xix + 224 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-8135-2633-7. $US26.00. (2000) (0)
The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic expedition 1910–1915: An overview (1985) (0)
Toward magnetic north: the Oberholtzer-Magee 1912 canoe journey to Hudson Bay . The Oberholtzer Foundation. 2000. Marshall, MN: The Oberholtzer Foundation. 127 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 0-9703138-0-2. Can$50.00. (2001) (0)
Background to the note found on herald Island: The arctic cruise of U.S.S. rodgers in 1881 (1981) (0)
Devon Island Programs, 1965 (1966) (0)
Clive Holland (1946-2000) (2001) (0)
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition, by Stephen R. Bown (2018) (0)
Survey of recreational use, Yukon River, 1997 (1999) (0)
Claudian, Panegyricus de Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti. M Dewar (1998) (0)

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