Talk:HMS Racehorse (1757)

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If they sailed north by Svalbard then surely they were trying to find the 'North East Passage'? The text refers to the 'North West Passage', but that's a different thing.Dean1954 (talk) 15:24, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pendulum observation[edit]

In the section in the North Pole expedition, the last paragraph mentions an attempt to make a "pendulum observation”: Additionally, Cummingøya is named after watchmaker Alexander Cumming, who made the pendulum used by Phipps' expedition. According to Gerard De Geer's 1913 Spitzbergen map, this is the island where Phipps tried to make a pendulum observation. It would be good to expand this with, or link to, an explanation of what a pendulum observation is. Phlar (talk) 15:33, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]