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The Knight expedition at Marble Island
In 1719 James Knight sailed from England with two ships to find the Northwest Passage and gold; the whole party vanished. Their wreckage and house were found on Marble Island, Hudson Bay, in 1767.
1719 CE · 62.68, -91.13 · status: explained
The account
Inuit told Hudson's Bay Company men that the last survivors died there over two winters. Marble Island is called 'Dead Man's Island', and Inuit tradition asks first-time visitors to crawl ashore out of respect for the spirits of the place.