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The New England
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The Explorers Club
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all"
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WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE DETAILS OF OUR NEXT CHAPTER MEETING SOON.
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On the wall of a highway ramp in St. John's, Newfoundland there is this amazing mural celebrating the life and adventures of Captain Bob Batrlett. Born in the small outport of Brigus on Conception Bay (his house there is now a national historic site) he was sent to St. John's to study at the Methodist College, but the sea got the best of him and at the age of sixteen, he went swilling (seal hunting) from then on, the sea was his home.
He spent the winters of 1898 and 1899 in the Kane Basin between Greenland and Ellesmere Island with Captain Perry and captained the Roosevelt on Peary's dash to the pole in 1909, accompanying the explorer to the 88th parallel. |
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Also on the Newfoundland wall is a painting of the Karluk. In 1913, Bartlet sailed from Victoria, BC on a scientific and exploring expedition to the Arctic north. Commanded by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the expedition was put together on the cheap with inexperienced crew and an inadequate ship. Once stuck in the ice near the Alaskan shore Stefansson left on a "hunting" party, never to return to the Karluk. Trapped in the pack ice the ship and its imprisoned men drifted for five months to near Wrangel Island where the fragile hull was inevitably crushed. Shipwreck Camp was established on the ice, fifty miles from land. Batrlet led the "Arctic rookies" through towering pressure ridges and after six days reached the island. Their only hope of rescue was to contact the outside world. Bartlet and one Inuit hunter traveled by dog sled over 100 miles of treacherous sea ice and another 600 through Siberia eventually arriving in Alaska where a successful rescue was mounted. |
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In 1925 Captain Bartlett was living in New York when he purchased the Gloucester fishing schooner Effie M. Morrissey. For the next twenty years he would sail her under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, The Heye Foundation, The Smithsonian, The Museum of the American Indian and the U. S. Government. His last voyage on the Morissey was only months before he died in New York in 1946. He is buried near the family home in Brigus, Newfoundland.
Captain Bob Bartlett was a member of The Explorers Club from 1914 until his death. |
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Chapter Information
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The Explorers Club®, World Center for Exploration®, The Flag and the Seal are registered trademarks of The Explorers Club. Use by others is strictly prohibited.
The Explorers Club is a not-for-profit organization as defined under Section 170(b) (I) (A) (vi) of the Internal Revenue Code.
© The New England Chapter of The Explorers Club 2000. All rights reserved. |
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