Record ID:
49784975 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n 98056496 sh 91001653
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Notes:
  • Work cat.: NUCMC data from Nantucket Historical Association, Research Center for Coffin, G.W. Papers, 1860-1899 (Greely Relief Expedition, 1884; the rescue of Lt. Adolphus W. Greely and five of his men in the Arctic in 1884 by Capt. George W. Coffin, commanding ship "Alert")
  • LC data base, 3/26/91 (Greely Relief Expedition, 1884)
  • Dict. Amer. hist. under Greely Arctic Expedition (expedition led by Greely in 1881 for 3 yrs. of exploration and scientific observation; a supply ship sent in 1882 was prevented by ice from reaching Greely and returned to U.S.; a second store ship was sunk by ice the following year; in 1884 Secy. of Navy William E. Chandler purchased two whalers, the Bear and Thetis and dispatched them, with the ship Alert (sent by Gt. Brit. to U.S.), to find Greely's party; ships under command of Cmdr. W.S. Schley and after a successful voyage, discovered Greely and his party 250 mi. south of their base at Ellesmere Isl., where they were carried safely to the relief ships)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)872875
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  • DLC eng DLC DLC