Chances for arctic survival: Greely's expedition revisited

Arctic

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 373-379

  Wȩsławski, Jan Marcin ^a   Legezyńska, Joanna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amphipods; Arctic history; Ellesmere Island

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATION; FOOD SUPPLY; SURVIVAL;

CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NUNAVUT;

AMPHIPODA; CRUSTACEA; LYSIANASSOIDEA; ONISIMUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 0036993716     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic721     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. ALBANOV, V.I. 2000. In the land of white death. New York: The Modern Library. 205 p.
2. ANONYMOUS. 1884. Report of Board of Officers to consider an expedition for the relief of Lieutn. Greely and party. Washington: Government Printing Office. 192 p.
3. _. 1885. The Greely Arctic Expedition. Philadelphia: Barclay & Co. 105 p.
4. BARNETT, C.R. 1988. Time and tide. The Explorers Journal 66:24-29.
5. BERTON, P. 2000 The Arctic Grail: The quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909. New York: Lyons Press. 672 p.
6. BRAINARD, D.L. 1929. The outpost of the lost: An Arctic adventure. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. 317 p.
7. _. 1940. Six came back. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. 305 p.
8. BRUNO, J.C.D., and ROCKWELL, T.O. 1984. The Greely Commemorative Expedition. The Explorers Journal 62:50-53.
9. DICTIONARY OF CALORIES. 1994. New Lanark, Scotland: Geddes & Grosset Ltd. 249 p.
10. DURNIN, J.V.G.A. 1981. Energy requirements in health. In: Watt, J., Freeman, J., and Bynum, W.F., eds. Starving sailors. International Symposium on the Influence of Nutrition upon Naval and Maritime History. Greenwich: National Maritime Museum. 1-9.
11. EDHOLM, O.G., and BACHARACH, A.L. 1965. The physiology of human survival. New York: Academic Press. 581 p.
12. FEENEY, R.E. 1997. Polar journeys: The role of food and nutrition in early exploration. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 279 p.
13. FORTIER, L., FORTIER, M., BARBER D.G., GRATTON, Y., HARGRAVE, B.T., SASAKI, H., HOBSON, K.A., HUNT, G.L., LAROUCHE, P., LEGENDRE, L., MINNETT, P.G., NIELSEN, T.G., ODATE, T., and WALSH, I.D. 2000. The International North Water Polynya Study (NOW): Progress report and early synthesis. 2000 Ocean Sciences Meeting, January 24-28, San Antonio, Texas. Unpublished report, available from Prof. Louis Fortier, Principal Investigator, Groupe Interuniversitaire de Recherches Océanographiques du Québec (GIROQ), Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada G1K 7P4.
14. GREELY, A.W. 1886. Three years of Arctic service. Vol. 2. London: Richard Bentley and Sons. 444 p.
15. _. 1888. International Polar Expedition. Report on the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land. Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
16. GUTTRIDGE, L.F. 2000. Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The harrowing true story of the Greely Expedition. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 354 p.
17. HOUSTON, C.S., ed. 1984. Arctic ordeal: The journal of John Richardson, surgeon-naturalist with Franklin, 1820-1822. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
18. KEENLEYSIDE, A. 1995. The last resort: Cannibalism in the Arctic. The Explorers Journal 72:139-143.
19. KOZŁOWSKI, S. 1986. The limits of adaptation. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna. 450 p. In Polish.
20. LEGEŻYŃSKA, J., WȨSŁAWSKI, J.M, and PRESLER, P. 2000. Benthic scavengers collected by baited traps in the High Arctic. Polar Biology 23:539-544.
21. MARY-ROUSSELIÈRE, G. 1969. History of a case of cannibalism in Baffin Island. Eskimo 81:6-23.
22. McDOUGALL, J. 1977. Angel of the snow. London: Fred Muller, Ltd. 173 p.
23. MUUS, B., SALOMONSEN, F., and VIBE, C. 1980. Grønlands fauna. Copenhagen: Gyldendal. 464 p.
24. MYERSON, M.D. 1996. Physicians of the Arctic: Octave Pavy, M.D., tragic maverick. Polar Priorities 16:18-21.
25. NANSEN, F. 1900. Farthest North. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. 679 p.
26. ROWLEY, G.W. 1950. Starvation near Piling, Foxe Basin NWT. The Arctic Circular 3:31-32.
27. SCHLEY, W.S. 1887. Report of Winfield S. Schley, commander, U.S. Navy, commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 75 p.
28. SIMPSON-HOUSLEY, P. 1999. Cain's land: Literature and mythology of the Polar regions. North York, Ontario: Captus Press Inc. 120 p.
29. STEFANSSON, V. 1921. The friendly Arctic. New York: Macmillan. 311 p.
30. TODD, A.L. 1961. Abandoned: The story of the Greely Arctic Expedition 1881-1884. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. 323 p.
31. WEBSTER, A.P. 1947. Caloric requirement of man in cold climates: Theoretical considerations. Washington, D.C: Research Division, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, Project X-766. 11 p.