Awards & Winners

Robert McClure

Date of Birth 28-January-1807
Place of Birth Wexford
(Republic of Ireland, County Wexford)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Explorer
Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure was an Irish explorer of the Arctic. In 1854, he was the first to transit the Northwest Passage, as well as the first to circumnavigate the Americas.

Awards by Robert McClure

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1854


Patron's Gold Medal
(For his remarkable exertions ... in navigating his ship through the ice of the Polar Seas, and for his discovery of the North West Passage)