Kataktovik
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…ent the ship’s stores and provide material for the scientific collections. He would take five men, including two Inuit hunters, Kuraluk and Kataktovik, who had joined at Nome. They would be gone days, perhaps weeks, depending on what they found. Bartlett objected. The ice was drifting west…
- Stefansson Walks Away…er and two seamen loaded a small sledge with sleeping bags, a tent, cooking gear, and ten days’ rations. The two Inuit hunters, Keraluk and Kataktovik, watched without comment. They had been engaged at Point Hope for their knowledge of ice conditions and animal movements, their skill with…
- A Ship Without Its Expedition…915. The possibility that they might drift two years without reaching open water was one he did not share with the crew. The Inuit hunters, Kataktovik and another man named Kuraluk, observed this management with the patience of people who had never assumed that any season would end in surv…