Sewing and cooking skills may not seem like much, but they are vital for surviving in the Arctic climate. She also hunted, and managed the group’s Inuit employees. Josephine Peary was more than ...

Bowdoin’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum is dedicated entirely to all things Arctic. It is named after Arctic explorers and Bowdoin graduates Robert E. Peary (Class of 1877) and Donald B. MacMillan ...

Peary’s last two expeditions ... he sailed to Cape Sheridan on the northeast coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada’s High Arctic. There, the crew allowed the ship to freeze in for the winter. Over the ...

Their job was to shuttle loads forward over the Arctic Ocean so that Peary, at the apex of this pyramidal system, could advance quickly with a light sled toward the North Pole. Accounts of Marvin ...

Peary expected worldwide fame for being first ... But there were also disappoi European explorers often thought of the Arctic as an empty wasteland, and the Indigenous people who lived there ...

Learn more. Bowdoin College will say goodbye to two exhibitions at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, “Collections and Recollections: Objects and the Stories They Tell” and “Northern ...

Sewing and cooking skills may not seem like much, but they are vital for surviving in the Arctic climate. She also hunted, and managed the group’s Inuit employees. Josephine Peary was more than ...

Brrrrrrr! Henson went to the Arctic seven times with fellow explorer Robert E Peary between 1891 and 1909. After reaching the North Pole in 1909, Peary, the leader of the expedition returned to ...