Such was the mettle that made Dr. John Rae one of the greatest Arctic explorers of his time. John Rae was born on September 30, 1813, at the Hall of Clestrain, near Stromness, in the Orkneys.

A historical society has announced a public fundraiser in an attempt to save the childhood home of Dr. John Rae, one of the luminaries of arctic exploration. The Hall of Clestrain is a three-story ...

The famous Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin has a memorial in St ... a navigable route from the Atlantic to the Pacific from which he never returned. Dr John Rae, explorer based in Canada, found out ...