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    had four sons and six daughters. His two youngest sons, George Edward Nares and John Dodd Nares entered the Royal Navy. He was educated at the Royal Naval...
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    Nares Lake is a lake in the southern Yukon between Bennett Lake and Tagish Lake that lies below Nares Mountain. Nares Lake is in fact an arm of Tagish...
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  • Look up nares in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nares is the plural of naris, meaning nostril. Nares may also refer to: Anterior nares, the external...
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    Nares Strait (Danish: Nares Strædet; French: Détroit de Nares) is a waterway between Ellesmere Island and Greenland that connects the northern part of...
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    Sir George Nares (1716–1786) was an English barrister, judge, and politician. Born at Hanwell, Middlesex, he was the younger son of George Nares of Albury...
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    the L'Aigle. Among the ships following was HMS Newport, captained by George Nares, which surveyed the canal on behalf of the Admiralty a few months later...
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    expedition, Nares became the first explorer to take his ships all the way north through the channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island —now named Nares Strait...
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    laboratories for natural history and chemistry. The expedition, led by Captain George Nares, sailed from Portsmouth, England, on 21 December 1872. Other naval officers...
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    Challenger Expedition of 1872–1876 under its commission captain, Sir George Nares. A DNA study found Maclear's rat to be the sister species of Hainald's...
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    Arctic exploration. There was a gap of many years before the Nares expedition and Sir George Nares' declaration there was "no thoroughfare" to the North Pole;...
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