DAUNTLESS WOMAN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 97, 7 April 1934, Page 7

DAUNTLESS WOMAN

Work in the Arctic VISIT TO “GHOST SHIP” Canada recently was visited by one of that growing band of Englishwomen who, since the war, have emulated their menfolk in seeking experience iu remote corners of the earth. Miss Isobel Wylie Hutchison has returned from the Arctic coast of Alaska, whence Wilkins flew in his crossing of the North Pole seven years ago. She has spent nine months in Alaska, collecting Arctic flora for the Royal Herbarium at Kew, and Eskimo eurios for the Museum of Ethnology at Cambridge. Stranded when a schooner caught in the ice pack , Miss Hutchinson made her way overland, with Eskimo guides, to the mouth of the Mackenzie, from which she travelled by Canadian Airways 2000 miles to civilisation. Miss Hutchison describes her visit to the “ghost ship,” the Hudson’s Bay Company’s steamer Baychimo, which was abandoned when the ice pack gripped it off Point Barrow three years ago. . She was the only person, apart from Eskimos, to visit the vessel since the crew abandoned it, after salvaging the million dollar cargo of furs. Although the Baychimo was stripped of valuable equipment, Miss Hutchison was agreeably surprised to be able to spend an hour browsing through the Encyclopaedia Britannica in the captain’s cabin. She has spent a year in Greenland, and says she will return to continue her work in Northern Canada.