Donald Baxter MacMillan
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Donald Baxter MacMillan was an American explorer, sailor, researcher and lecturer who made over 30 expeditions to the Arctic from 1908 until 1957 during his 46-year career.
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1909 photograph of MacMillan (right) with explorer George Borup.
Circa 1922; Donald MacMillan in fur suit at wheel of the schooner he designed: the Bowdoin
MacMillan at the White House on March 30, 1925.
Bowdoin (Arctic schooner)
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Bowdoin is a historic schooner built in 1921 in East Boothbay, Maine, at the Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard. Designed by William H. Hand Jr. under the direction of explorer Donald B. MacMillan, the gaff-ri
Donald Baxter MacMillan
…scenes, and audio recordings of Inuit languages, thousands of which were taken by American sailor Miriam MacMillan. In 1921, he commissioned the schooner Bowdoin, which sailed to the Arctic two dozen times. Born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1874, Donald MacMillan lived in Freeport, Maine, after the deaths…
Bowdoin at anchor off Sable Island, Nova Scotia
Bowdoin (with igloo habitats) frozen in Arctic ice (1923)