Volume 24-25, 1976-7 - The Arctic Circle - Home

vol,. )off I\tro. 3 TTm ARCIIC CIRCUIAR 54NORTTIERN GrcRAPHICAL I{AMESPresidentrs Seat: S.E. Baffin Island 620 39' 660 46,I4cr:ntain naned by Charles FYancis HaIl on his first voyage 1860-62, afterAbraham Lincrcln, Sixteenth President of t]le United States (186f-65) .Popham Bay: S.E. Baffin Island 640 13' 650 10'For F.W. Leybourne-Popham (d. L9O7) , a rnajor fign:re in arctic trading andpioneer of ttre Siberian Flotilla Ccnparry. TLre feature was likely named afterhim hy Walter J. Jackson, former skipper of his yacht and Siberian veteran.Lancaster Sound: Between lilortlrern Baffin 7 40 l-3 ' g4o oo'Island and Devon Isl-andNaned in July 1616 by Baffin and Bylot after Sir Janres Lancaster, Erglishnavigator who ccnnranded tlre first fleet of tJ.e East Indian Ccnpany, 16m3,and was an active prcnroter of e>