Herald 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 Ice Closes Its Jaws…wait for conditions that would allow them to travel. An advance party of four would later lose their way on the march and be found dead on Herald Island years later. Another party of four would detach themselves and never be seen again. Of the seventeen who would eventually reach Wrangel Isl…
- The Ship Gives Up the Ghost…resented a calculation: weight versus survival, the known need against the unknown journey. They had drifted past Point Barrow’s longitude. Herald Island lay somewhere to the west, Wrangel Island farther still. No rescue could reach them. The ice was their only road, and it was closing behind…
- The Decision to March…ed. Mamen reported to Bartlett that he had left the group a few miles short of land that was evidently not Wrangel Island, and was probably Herald Island, 38 miles from their intended destination. Mamen’s report was factual, exhausted, precise. He had left Anderson’s party on February 1, with…