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Unchained Main: The Arctic Life and Times of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett. Boulder Publications. ISBN 9781927099940. Levy, Buddy (2022). Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781250274441. [13] Niven, Jennifer (2001). The Ice Master. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-39123-2.
1825–1827: The Mackenzie River expedition descends the Mackenzie River and maps much of the Arctic coast; 1826: Frederick William Beechey aboard HMS Blossom explores the Alaskan coast from Point Barrow to the Bering Strait; 1827: First Norwegian expedition to the Arctic, led by Baltazar Mathias Keilhau
In 1994 she joined the Meta Incognita Project, [2] studying Martin Frobisher's Arctic expeditions and attempt to start a colony in Canada. [ 3 ] Seaver is best known for her 2004 book on the history of the Vínland Map , a map whose authenticity has been debated since its first appearance in 1957 and is now considered a forgery. [ 4 ]
A number of previous expeditions set out with the intention of reaching the North Pole but did not succeed; that of British naval officer William Edward Parry in 1827, the tragic American Polaris expedition under Charles Francis Hall in 1871, the ill-fated Jeannette Expedition commanded by US Navy Lieutenant Commander George W. De Long in 1879 ...
MacMillan was known to be fond of dogs and very good at working with them -- skills he learned from Inuit companions on his first Arctic expedition with Robert Peary in 1908-1909." [ 15 ] On June 25, 1954, MacMillan was promoted, by a special act of Congress , to rank of rear admiral on the Naval Reserve retired list in honor of his lifetime of ...
His books focus on exploring nature. The CBC placed his book, Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic , on their recommended reading list for the winter of 2020. [ 2 ] The book chronicles a 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) wilderness canoe trip he took to celebrate Canada's sesquicentennial. [ 3 ]
Louise Arner Boyd (September 16, 1887 – September 14, 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions.She became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955, after privately chartering a DC-4 and crew that included aviation pioneers Thor Solberg and Paul Mlinar.
George Washington De Long (August 22, 1844 – c. October 31, 1881) was a United States Navy officer and explorer who led the ill-fated Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881, in search of the Open Polar Sea.