Wrangel Island
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 Ship and the Plan…again. The echo remained flat. In 1914, members of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, organized by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, would be marooned on Wrangel Island for nine months after their ship, Karluk, was crushed in the ice pack. This outcome lay invisible to the officials examining her seams in t…
- The Leader and the Captain…been. They had food for weeks, equipment for travel, a captain who knew where they must go and how little chance they had of getting there. Wrangel Island lay two hundred miles to the west, theoretically reachable before their supplies failed. A smaller island lay closer but offered no shelter…
- Stefansson Walks Away…nger relevant to the ship’s immediate situation. They were in the Beaufort Sea’s central pack, drifting west toward the Chukchi Sea, toward Wrangel Island, toward the Siberian coast—toward any of the possible endpoints that Arctic currents might provide, none of them reachable by human effort…