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The Polaris expedition and the problem of bias in Arctic exploration history

The Polaris expedition and the problem of bias in Arctic exploration history

Posted on 21 November 2022 by Charlotte Gehrke

By Nanna Kaalund In April 1873, the whaling ship Tigress discovered twenty people drifting on an ice floe off the coast of Newfoundland. Those rescued were crewmembers from the Polaris […]