Dr John Rae was born in Orkney at the Hall of Clestrain. He became an explorer with the Hudson's bay Company, learning from the native people how Timothy survive in the Canadian Arctic. He led three of the four expeditions in which he took part, travelling 3,645 miles on foot & 6,700 miles by boat, tracing 1,765 miles of unknown Arctic coastline.
In 1854, he discovered Rae Strait, the last link in the first navigable North-West Passage between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans, & the demise of the ill-fated Franklin expedition.
Unveiled on the 200th anniversary of Dr Rae's birth.
Sculpted by Ian Scott Donated by the Twatt family, Banff
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