Bering Strait
Books
- Left on the Ice The Karluk Disaster and the Canadian Arctic Expedition's Fight for Survival · Liszt Think
In August 1913, the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, became trapped in pack ice off Alaska. When leader Vilhjalmur Stefansson departed on a hunting trip, he never returned to the vessel.
- The Leader and the Captain…hernmost point of Alaska and into the Chukchi Sea. The ice was heavier here, older, more compressed by the currents that circulated through Bering Strait. Bartlett watched the pressure ridges build around them, forty feet of shattered ice that could mount a ship’s hull and crush it like an eg…
- Into the Gripping Ice…d to the Canadian government for the ten thousand dollars Stefansson had negotiated. The whaler turned expedition vessel passed through the Bering Strait and turned east along the Alaskan coast, bound for Herschel Island where the Mary Sachs and Alaska would assemble. For three weeks she held…
- The Uncharted Territory…arluk was entering a region of institutional absence. The United States Coast Guard, newly established, maintained no presence north of the Bering Strait. The Canadian government, for all its Arctic ambitions, had no infrastructure in the western Arctic capable of reaching a ship in distress.…