Schooner Sails Closer To North Pole Than Any Other Ship
NEW YORK, Sept 8. A schooner, the Bowdoin, has set a record. This was when she sailed within eleven degrees of the North Pole on her current Arctic expedition. The commander, Donald B. MacMillan, a noted explorer, reported this to-day. In a telegram to Bowdoin College, which is sponsor of the expedition, MacMillan said that the Bowdoin beat the- farthest north record of any other ship by, “working her way through heavy ice to within 11 degrees of the Pole.” He said that he and his crew landed at Elsmere Land and at Baffin Land. MacMillan said he was now back at Battle Harbour in Labrador, after an 8000 mile trip and had aboard the Bowdoin many “collections of northern birds.”
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Grey River Argus, 10 September 1948, Page 7
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