Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916

Short description: Scientific expedition in the Arctic Circle

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson 1915 Dr. Rudolph Martin Anderson

The Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1918 was a scientific expedition in the Arctic Circle organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.[1] The expedition was originally to be sponsored by the (US) National Geographic Society and the American Museum of Natural History. Canada took over the sponsorship because of the potential for discovery of new land and Stefansson, who though born in Canada was now an American, re-established his Canadian citizenship. The expedition was divided into a Northern Party led by Stefansson, and a Southern Party led by R M. Anderson.

## Contents

* 1 Northern Party
* 2 Southern Party
* 3 Expedition
* 4 Results and legacy
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 Sources
* 8 Further reading
* 9 External links

## Northern Party

The objective of the Northern Party was to explore for new land north and west of the known lands of the Canadian Arctic. At this time the possible existence of large undiscovered land masses, comparable to the Canadian Arctic islands or even a small continent, was scientifically plausible. The approach of the Northern Party, besides simply going out and looking for land, was a program of through-ice depth soundings to map the edge of the continental shelf. Meteorological, magnetic, and marine biological investigations were also planned.

## Southern Party

The objective of the Southern Party was scientific documentation of the geography, geology, resources, wildlife, and people of the Mackenzie River delta and adjacent regions of Canada between Cape Parry and the Kent Peninsula, for about 100 mi (160 km) inland, and southern and eastern Victoria Island. Copper deposits and trade routes were of particular interest.

## Expedition

1913 was a particularly bad year for Arctic navigation. All of the expedition ships were frozen in before they could reach their initial destination of Herschel Island. The principal ship of the expedition, the Karluk, was carried off and eventually crushed by the ice, leading to the loss of eleven lives before a famous rescue.

Most of the Southern Party had travelled in other ships of the expedition, and Stefansson left the Karluk with a party of five before the ship was carried off. Stefansson promptly purchased a small schooner, the North Star, reconstituted the Northern Party with local hires and resumed exploring. Only one of the fourteen Karluk survivors rejoined the expedition.

The expedition purchased another ship, the Polar Bear, in 1915. The Southern Party remained in the North through the summer of 1916, exploring and mapping as far east as Bathurst Inlet. Some members of the Northern Party continued exploring through 1918.[2]

## Results and legacy

The expedition discovered land previously unknown even to the Inuit [3] (including Brock, Mackenzie King, Borden, Meighen, Lougheed and Stefansson Islands),[4] produced valuable data, and launched the careers of several explorers and scientists. The controversies it engendered persisted for decades.

## See also

* Diamond Jenness
* Robert Bartlett (explorer)
* Hubert Wilkins
* Christian Theodore Pedersen
* Voyage of the Karluk
* Ernest de Koven Leffingwell

## References

1. ↑ Niven, Jennifer (2000). The Ice Master. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-8446-0.
2. ↑ "The Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918)" (in en-US). https://www2.whoi.edu/site/beaufortgyre/history/the-canadian-arctic-expedition-1913-1918/.
3. ↑ Gray, D. New Lands: explorations of the Northern Party
4. ↑ Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (1922). The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions. New York: Macmillan. https://archive.org/details/friendlyarctics01stefgoog.

## Sources

* Bartlett, Robert A.; Hale, Ralph T. (1916). The last voyage of the Karluk : flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–16. McClelland, Toronto. https://archive.org/details/lastvoyageofkarl00bartuoft.
* Bovet, John A. (1979) Archivaria 9 pp. 254–255 [Review of] Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic [1]
* Diubaldo, Richard J. Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, 1998 ISBN 0773518150
* Gray, David. The People of the CAE. Northern Party with a contribution from Jette Elsebeth Ashlee. Canadian Museum of Civilization
* Gray, David. Canada's little arctic navy. The ships of the CAE. Canadian Museum of Civilization
* Gray, David. New Lands: explorations of the Northern Party Canadian Museum of Civilization
* Gray, David. New knowledge: Science and the Southern Party. Canadian Museum of Civilization
* Jenness, Stuart Edward. The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, 2004. accessed April 26, 2009.
* Levy, Buddy (2022). Empire of Ice and Stone. St. Martin's Press, United States. ISBN 978-1-250-27444-1. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250274441/empireoficeandstone.
* New York Times September 18, 1915 Stefansson's quest to test a theory
* Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (1921) The friendly Arctic; the story of five years in polar regions. Macmillan, New York

## Further reading

* Stuart Jenness (ed) (1991). Arctic Odyssey: Diary of Diamond Jenness, 1913–1916 [ISBN missing]
* Hunt, William R. (1986). Stef: A Biography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian Arctic Explorer University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0774802472.
* Levere, Trevor H. (2004). Science and the Canadian Arctic: A Century of Exploration, 1818–1918 Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521524919.
* Montgomery, Richard. Pechuck. Kessinger Publishing, 2005 (originally published by Dodd Mead 1932) ISBN 1417997559
* McKinlay, William Laird (1999). The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312206550.
* Niven, Jennifer (2000). The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. Hyperion. ISBN 0786865296. https://archive.org/details/icemasterdoomed10000nive.
* Harold Noice (1924). With Stefansson in the Arctic; Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, [2]
* Gisli Palsson "The legacy of Vilhjalmur Stefansson"
* F. A. McDiarmid "Geographical Determinations of the Canadian Arctic Expedition" The Geographical Journal Vol. 62, No. 4 (Oct., 1923), pp. 293–302

## External links

* Northern people, northern knowledge. The story of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1918  An extensive and detailed online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Particularly strong on the roles of local Inuit, and other Arctic residents hired for the expedition. Specific sections of this website are cited above as references attributed to David Gray, the principal researcher and writer of the exhibit.
* Anne Mease Explorers and Northern Exploration Northern Research Portal, University of Saskatchewan. A multi-part article including a section on Stefansson.
* Karsten Andersen Manuscripts at Dartmouth College Library
* The Papers of Harold Noice at Dartmouth College Library
* The Papers of Burt McConnell at Dartmouth College Library
* James Crawford Diaries and Photographs at Dartmouth College Library
* The Papers of Storker T. Storkerson at Dartmouth College Library

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* Furneaux
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* missing name
* missing name
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* Abernethy)
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* Nares
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* missing name
* C. A. Larsen

"Heroic Age"|

* Belgian Antarctic Expedition
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* Cook
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* Racoviță
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* Borchgrevink
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* missing name
* Discovery Hut
* Gauss
* Gauss
* Drygalski
* Swedish Antarctic Expedition
* missing name
* O. Nordenskjöld
* C. A. Larsen
* Scottish Antarctic Expedition
* Bruce
* missing name
* Orcadas Base
* Nimrod Expedition
* missing name
* French Antarctic Expeditions
* missing name
* Charcot
* Japanese Antarctic Expedition
* Shirase
* Amundsen's South Pole expedition
* missing name
* Amundsen
* Framheim
* Polheim
* Terra Nova
* missing name
* Scott
* Wilson
* E. R. Evans
* Crean
* Lashly
* Filchner
* Australasian Antarctic Expedition
* missing name
* Mawson
* Far Eastern Party
* Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
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* Ernest Shackleton
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* Ross Sea party
* Mackintosh
* Shackleton–Rowett Expedition
* missing name

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Farthest South
South Pole|

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* J. Cook
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* Furneaux
* Weddell
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* J. C. Ross
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* Crozier
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* Mawson
* David
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* missing name
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* Bjaaland
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* Dufek
* Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
* Hillary
* V. Fuchs
* Pole of Cold
* Vostok Station
* Pole of inaccessibility
* Pole of Inaccessibility Station
* Tolstikov
* Crary
* A. Fuchs
* Messner

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