Robert Bartlett (explorer)
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Robert Abram Bartlett was a Newfoundland-born American Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Bob Bartlett and local inhabitant aboard ship during Bartlett's Arctic Expedition, 1933
Last voyage of the Karluk
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The last voyage of the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1916, ended with the loss of the ship in the Arctic seas, and the subsequent deaths of nearly half her complement of 2
Robert Bartlett (explorer)
…to a rivalry between the two men). Bartlett took a ship and was the first person to sail north of 88° N. In 1914, Bartlett's leadership in the doomed Karluk Expedition helped save the lives of most of its stranded participants after leader Vilhjalmur Stefansson abandoned the expedition. After being stranded for several…
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, leader of the Canadian Arctic Expedition
Captain Robert Bartlett, who commanded Karluk's last voyage
The expedition's scientific staff, with Stefansson and Bartlett. Malloch, Beuchat, McKinlay, Mamen, Mackay and Murray remained with Karluk; the others formed the Southern Party.
Karluk in her days as a whaling vessel