Circumpolar Navigator

Arctic Heritage Library

Allan Crawford

#2, “Man standing – resting arm on box on pole.”–Caption from typescript key.

Eider duck

#1, “Medium shot of eider duck – man in background.”–Caption from typescript key.

Stefansson stereographic projection, 1925

“Stefansson Stereographic projection, 1925. For twenty years Vilhjalmur Stefansson has advocated the popular use of the Polar Projection Map, emphasizing its significance for air travel of the future, since nine tenths of the world’s population and three fourths of all the land lie within the Northern Hemisphere. Map from The Adventure of Wrangel Island, by […]

Wrangel Island

“Wrangel Island; Map of Wrangel Island. The shaded parts are sand spits only a little above sea level; The British Admiralty chart as it was immediately after Captain Kellett’s discoveries were recorded on it, except that the dotted outline of Wrangel Island, in its proper position, has been printed over the ‘Mountains seen in Herald’ […]

Map of Wrangell vicinity

“Map of Wrangel Vicinity; Caption: The dotted outline of Wrangel Island in its proper position, has on this map been printed over the ‘Mountains seen by ‘Herald” as originally mapped by the British admiralty from Kellett’s records. The ‘Mountains laid down by Wrangel’ are taken from Baron Wrangel’s own map, and so is his sledge […]

Map of Wrangel vicinity

“Map of Wrangel Vicinity; Caption: The dotted outline of Wrangel Island in its proper position, has on this map been printed over the ‘Mountains seen by ‘Herald” as originally mapped by the British admiralty from Kellett’s records. The ‘Mountains laid down by Wrangel’ are taken from Baron Wrangel’s own map, and so is his sledge […]

Map of Wrangel vicinity

“Wrangell I.; Take out one (l) in Wrangel. Misspelled (4) times.; Rush N.Y. Post size in Stefanson [illegible]”–Caption from item. #348