An early attempt to reach the North Pole by airship from Dane’s Island, Svalbard. It failed while the engines were being tested.
The Franz Josef Land Archipelago. E. B. Baldwin’s Journal of the Wellman Polar Expedition.
Baldwin, Evelyn Briggs. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
- 1905-07 Private US Wellman Polar Expedition to North Pole.
- Arctic Reading: United States
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The Search for the North Pole; Or, Life in the Great White World….
Baldwin, Evelyn Briggs. Chicago, IL: Sold only by subscription, 1896.
- Arctic Reading: General
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Baldwin’s papers are at the Library of Congress (q.v.); this book was written before some of his expeditionary work. Interestingly, he seems to have been an ardent Freemason and his chapter XLVI “Lovers of the Arts and Sciences: Free and Accepted Masonry in Arctic Exploration,” lists a number of explorers who shared that association: Kane, Hayes, Greely, Melville, Gilder, and Lt. Peary (with whom he later squabbled. See p. 507-12.)