FATE OF POLAR PARTY
Missing Members Of Steffanson’s Crew TEN YEARS’ MYSTERY CLEARED UP, [By Electric Cable-Copyright] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 24. Mr H. A. Snow, a big game hunter and explorer, has just returned from a two years’ photographic exploration of the Arctic regions. H© announced the discovery of the remains of the missing members of Steffanson’s North Pole expedition of 1914, on Herald Island. The discovery clears up the mystery concerning the fate of five members of the crew, one of the two parties into which the expedition was divided, who quit the sinking ship Karluk and started back to civilisation.
The party led by Steffanson arrived safely, but the other, led by the ship’s doctor, was never again heard from. The bodies were sixty-five miles from where the Karluk was lost.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2716, 25 June 1925, Page 6
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