Northwest Passage 2013: Fort Ross 'Guest Book' Volume I from 1980 to 2013

What is Fort Ross?

The Fort Ross trading post, on the northeast shore of Bellot Strait is situated on the southeast tip of Somerset Island. Fort Ross was established in 1937 and lasted for eleven years. Today the building has been refurbished and strengthened against bears, and acts as a refuge for researchers, hunters and crews of boats passing through. It is of particular interest by yachts and commercial cruise ships attempting a Northwest Passage to stop and sign the "Guest Register" while waiting on Bellot Strait tides, weather and/or ice on either side of Bellot Strait.

Fort Ross was the last trading post to be established by the Hudson's Bay Company.

Henry A. Larsen (explorer) reached it in 1942 aboard the 104 foot RCMPV St. ROCH, in the summer of 2006. The St. ROCH is a historic vessel available for viewing at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Where is Fort Ross located on a map?

What does Fort Ross look like?

Who's names or vessel names might I recognize in the Fort Ross "Guest Book"? (I have not listed everyone... there are upwards of 95 pages of names... so here are the ones I recognize... lol)

Cruise ship M/V WORLD DISCOVERER 1986

David Scott Cowper single-handed in a 42 foot lifeboat M/Y MABEL E. HOLLAND 1988

John Bockstoce and crew in a 60 foot motor-sailer S/Y BELVEDERE 1988

CCGS MARTHA L. BLACK 1988

Captain T. C. Pullen, ice pilot, M/V SOCIETY EXPLORER 1988

Don Albright - McGill University Thule Archaeology Project 1991

Ramon Lamon - Greenland to Alaska by dogsled and kayak 1992

CCGS HENRY LARSEN 1992

S/V DAGMAR AAEN 1993, 2004

CCGS ARCTIC IVIK 1995

Captain Stephen A. Gomes, CCGS HENRY LARSEN 1996

S/V OCEAN SEARCH and crew 1999

Susan Polischuk, Polar Bear Biologist 2000

St. ROCH II and film crew - Voyage of Rediscovery 2000

S/Y APOSTLE ANDREW and crew 2002

Eric Brossier and crew S/V VAGABOND 2003

Richard and Andrew Wood and crew S/V NORWEIGIAN BLUE 2003

David Scott Cowper in 47 foot custom motorboat M/Y POLAR BOUND 2004, 2009 and a 6th NW Passage in 2013 via Fort Ross with Jane Maufe, fourth-great niece of Sir John Franklin

Arved Fuchs on S/V DAGMAR AAEN 2004

S/V PELAGIC AUSTALIS and crew 2005

Roger Swanson and crew S/V CLOUD NINE 2005

CCGS SIR WILFRED S. LAURENT 1999, 2005

S/V NEKTON and crew 2006

S/V STARY and crew 2006

Gary Ramon single-handed on S/V ARCTIC WANDERER 2008

Thierry Fabing and crew on S/V BALOUM GWEN 2008, 2009

S/V SILENT SOUND and crew 2009

Chris Bray and Jess Taunton in S/V TELEPORT 2011-2012

M/V CLIPPER ADVENTURER 2011, 2012

http://orionexpedition.ru/ 2011