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SAFE RETURN OR STEFANSSON. Ottawa,; December 26. Stefausson lias returned safely from the Arctic. ; .. A later message 'stiites that the Naval Department hais learned that Stefansson lias arrived: at Fort Yiikon, from tho Arctic.—J>us.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' • 1 [Stefansson left Victoria, British Columbia, on June 17, ;1913, to search for the unknown Arctii; Continent. A relief sliip was wrecked, and Stefaneson lived with the Eskimos;. Later, word arrived that he intended to inane the north-west passage to , tho eastward, through Melville Sound. '• Tliere aro indications that ho abandoned tho plan owing to.the late breaking of the ico in 1917 throughout the Arctic.- Fort Ynkon is in Alaska, Jufct inside tho Arctic Circle, and about 1.20 miles from the Canadian frontier.] ,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 80, 28 December 1917, Page 7
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