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Sir William Edward Parry was born in Bath, England on December 19, 1790. A noted explorer of the Arctic, he led a number of unsuccessful expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage to the Orient.
In a quest for the North Pole, Parry's fourth expedition in 1827 traveled across the ice from Spitsbergen, to latitude 82° 45' north, a feat that remained unmatched for almost fifty years. William Parry died on July 8, 1855.
Or so they thought. His 'death' was faked so he could escape to the Northern Wastes and join the AAA.