The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–1884 (a.k.a. the Greely Expedition[1]) to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely, and …

Feb 5, 2019 · The Greely Expedition reveals how poor planning, personality clashes, questionable decisions and pure bad luck conspired to turn a noble scientific mission into a human tragedy.

The 1881 Greely Expedition might have ended up as another unsolved Arctic mystery, but the U.S. Navy saw its chance to rise to the heroic occasion.

Greely’s mission was to record the weather, collect specimens, and attempt to set a record for the closest approach to the North Pole. The men expected to stay in the Arctic for several years, …

The Greely Expedition, marketed to the public as the first attempt by the United States to begin a new era of scientific research in the Arctic, was instead largely another expedition in the …

Sep 9, 2019 · Under the command of Captain Winfield Scott Schley, later a hero of the Spanish-American War, Bear sailed from Greenland and, on June 22, 1884, rescued Greely and the …

Oct 28, 2024 · Five weeks after departing from St. John's, Newfoundland aboard the U.S.S. Proteus, Greely and his team reached Ellesmere Island in the Arctic Circle and prepared for …

The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, led by U.S. Army Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely, was marooned in the Arctic since 1882 after initially attempting to establish a meteoroligical …

The expedition ran short of food and several resupply and rescue missions were unsuccessful, and by the time Greely and his men were rescued in 1884, there were only six survivors.

In 1881, Greely and a crew of 24 men set out to establish a station in Ellesmere Island, Canada, near the northern tip of Greenland. Their mission was ambitious: not only to collect …