Report of Board of Officers to Consider an Expedition for the Relief of Lieut. Greely and Party /

In 1881, Adolphus Greely led a US Arctic expedition to gather meteorological, astronomical and magnetic data. It was poorly supported by the US Army, neither Greely nor his men had experience of Arctic conditions, and their ship, the Proteus, sailed home once they had landed in Greenland. An inadequ...

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Main Author: United States Board of Officers (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1884.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Series:Cambridge library collection. Polar Exploration.
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