2 September; On this day in 1906, Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach the South Pole, completed his sailing around Canada’s Northwest Passage.

Nic Jones sings LORD FRANKLIN
’Twas homeward bound one night on the deep, Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep.
I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew.

With a hundred seamen he sailed away To that frozen ocean in the month of May
To seek a passage around the Pole Where we poor sailors do sometimes go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK3AYAzdZUI Mick Hanly

NORTHWEST PASSAGE by Stan Rogers

Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMRpYtAhGAo&t=21s
Stan Rogers

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