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The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 (a.k.a. the Greely Expedition [1]) to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely, and was promoted by the United States Army Signal Corps.
Adolphus Washington Greely FRSGS (March 27, 1844 – October 20, 1935) was a United States Army officer and polar explorer. He attained the rank of major general and was a recipient of the Medal of Honor .
A.W. Greely was a three-masted wooden schooner that became known for her role in the MacGregor Arctic Expedition, a privately funded expedition to the North Pole between July 1, 1937, and October 3, 1938.
The six survivors of the U.S. Army's Greely Arctic expedition with their U.S. Navy rescuers, at Upernavik, Greenland, 2–3 July 1884. Probably photographed on board Thetis. After more than a month of preparations, Thetis—now under the command of Commander Winfield Scott Schley, who also headed the relief squadron—departed New York on 1 May ...
Israel left for Washington, D.C., on April 28, 1881, to join the Lady Franklin Bay Polar Expedition with 23 other men under the leadership of Adolphus Greely.The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition was commissioned by the US government to collect scientific information about the polar regions.
The expedition, led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely, departed in the summer of 1881, and in 1882, a scheduled resupply effort failed, leaving the 25 men of the expedition without support to survive the winter about 500 miles (800 km) from the North Pole.
During the British Arctic Expedition of 1875 under George Nares, ancient cairns were found on Washington Irving Island), located in the mouth of the bay. [3] The area was also explored by Adolphus Greely during his Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884. [4]
1881–1884: Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, US Army Signal Corps expedition led by Adolphus Greely 1882–1883 : The Danish Dijmphna expedition travels to the territory between Russia and the North Pole