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- 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…lating how long the wood could flex before splintering. He understood that they were now passengers on a drift that could carry them toward Siberia or into the basin of the Arctic Ocean. Stefansson studied the ice to the north, searching for an opening that would allow him to continue h…
- The Leader and the Captain…rty feet of shattered ice that could mount a ship’s hull and crush it like an eggshell. He had seen the Jeannette’s remains on the coast of Siberia, knew what happened to vessels caught in this particular drift. The Jeannette had been better found than the Karluk, better equipped, bette…
- The Uncharted Territory…en by winds that circled clockwise across the Arctic Ocean, carrying the pack in a vast rotation that could carry a frozen ship west toward Siberia, north toward the pole, east toward the Canadian archipelago, or hold it for years in the gyre’s center. The theory of this circulation exi…