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About Alexander Armstrong
Sir Alexander Armstrong was an Irish naval surgeon, explorer, naturalist and author. After obtaining a medical degree he joined the Royal Navy and was stationed on board HMS Investigator, tasked with finding the lost expedition of explorer Sir John Franklin. Investigator was trapped in the ice at Mercy Bay in 1851 and Armstrong spent several winters in the Arctic before he returned to London.
Everything about Alexander Armstrong →- Occupation
- explorer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Ireland
- Born
- 1818
- Died
- July 4, 1899, 1899