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Rounders on the Ice

Salience Noteworthy
City/State/Country: Princess Royal Island, Nunavet, Canada
Game Rounders - Britain
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

The crew of a British ship investigating a northwest passage was trapped in the ice alongside Princess Royal Island in Feb. 1851, and while there the men played Rounders on the ice.

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"The Discovery of the Northwest Passage by HMS Investigator" (1856), p. 160

Comment

British sailors played rounders on the ice in Melville Bay, Greenland, Aug. 20, 1857. See Lloyd, "The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas"

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