Sir Allen Young (1827-1915), was a merchant navy officer and
experienced polar explorer. He took part in several expeditions
before those of the Pandora including as navigator to McClintock on
the Fox to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin. He was also in
command of the Fox on the 1860 North Atlantic Telegraph Expedition
to assess the practicality of a cable route between Europe and
America across the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland. In 1875 and 1876
he led two expeditions in the Canadian Arctic on the steam yacht
Pandora. The first, the British North-West Passage Expedition, was
an attempt to reach the magnetic pole via Baffin Bay and Lancaster
Sound, and to navigate the North-West Passage in one season. The
second was a further attempt on the North-West Passage, but also to
deliver dispatches to George Nares' Arctic expedition. These
compelling accounts were first published together in 1879.
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