History
The first European to see the island was John Richardson in 1826. In 1838 and 1839 Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson explored its southeast coast, while John Rae charted its entire south coast in 1851. Its northwest and west coasts were charted by men from Robert McClure's expedition in 1850 and 1851. One of Roald Amundsen's men, Godfred Hansen, charted its east coast as far as Cape Nansen in 1905, and in 1916 and 1917 Storker T. Storkerson, of Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, charted its northeast coast, discovering the Storkerson Peninsula.
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