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Don't poke the bear!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• Suck Diesel said:

  
  The monument in 1988. Crozier surrounded by four polar bears
  
  The Crozier Monument was constructed in 1862 in honour of Banbridge born Francis Rawdon Moria Crozier who died in 1848 on expedition to discover the North West Passage. The monument is one of eight points across the world, acknowledging Francis Crozier’s contribution towards exploration and science.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Suck Diesel Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find where the other seven Crozier contribution points are... ;)

• Suck Diesel said:

  maps.app.goo.gl/42873PwBbFM8u5KPA?g_st=ic
  
  “Vice-Admiral Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure CB (28 January 1807 – 17 October 1873) was an Irish explorer who explored the Arctic. In 1854 he traversed the Northwest Passage by boat and sledge, and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas”
  
  - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McClure

• Suck Diesel said:

  “Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier FRS FRAS (/ˈkroʊʒər/; 17 October 1796 – disappeared 26 April 1848) was an Irish officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in six expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. In 1843, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society for his scientific work during his expeditions.[1] Later, he was second-in-command to Sir John Franklin and captain of HMS Terror during the Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, which ended with the loss of all 129 crewmen in mysterious circumstances.
  Many places in the Arctic and Antarctic are named after him.[2] He, with James Clark Ross and Richard Moody, was also responsible for selecting the location of the capital of the Falkland Islands, Port Stanley, in 1843”
  - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crozier

• Suck Diesel said:

  “In 1845, a lavishly equipped two-ship expedition led by Sir John Franklin sailed to the Canadian Arctic to chart the last unknown swaths of the Northwest Passage. Confidence was high, as they estimated there was less than 500 km (310 mi) remaining of unexplored Arctic mainland coast. When the ships failed to return, relief expeditions and search parties explored the Canadian Arctic, which resulted in a thorough charting of the region, along with a possible passage. Many artifacts from the expedition were found over the next century and a half, including notes that the ships were ice-locked in 1846 near King William Island, about halfway through the passage, and unable to break free. Records showed Franklin died in 1847 and Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier took over command. In 1848 the expedition abandoned the two ships and its members tried to escape south across the tundra by sledge. Although some of the crew may have survived into the early 1850s, no evidence has ever been found of any survivors. In 1853, explorer John Rae was told by local Inuit about the disastrous fate of Franklin's expedition, but his reports were not welcomed in Britain on account of his reports of cannibalism amongst the surviving crews”
  - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage#Franklin_expedition