Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Admiral Sir George Strong Nares, KCB, RN (24th April 1831-1915) was a British navel officer and Arctic explorer. He was the son of another British naval captain, and was educated at the Royal Naval College Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island,Canada is named after him, as are Nares Mountain and Nares lake, in Yukon, Canada Led several scientific expeditions to the Artic, including command of the Challenger Expedition (1872 – 1874). Also surveyed the Magellan Strait and locations in Australia This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.