On this expedition, Nares became the first explorer to take his ships all the way north through the channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island —now named Nares Strait in his honour— to the Lincoln Sea.
On this expedition, Nares accomplished what no one had done before: he successfully navigated his ships through the passage between Greenland and Ellesmere Island —a feat that would later be named Nares Strait in his honor— and into the Lincoln Sea.