165 75 160 15.; 150 14-5 140 135 130 125 IZO IIS 110 IDS 100 



ITINERARY OF THE STEFANSSOI, ARTIC EXPEDITION FROM APRIL. 1910 TO APRIL. 1911 



In lato April, 1910, Mr. .Stofansson left Langton Bay and Cape Lyon, tho latter the most easterly- 

 point known to be visited by the Western E.skinio, and traversed the coast of Doli)hin and L'nion Strait 

 to Cape Bexley encountering no Flskimo until the end of the .iourney when he found a tribe that had 

 never .seen a wliite man. This coast has l)een skirted by water four times, by Dr. Richardson in the 

 twenties and again in the forties and Captain Collin.son in the fifties of the last century and by 

 Amundsen in 1905. These expeditions however, saw little of the land 



In May Mr. Stefiinsson crossed over to Victoria Land, where he discovered a Scandinavian-like 

 I)eople, and then proceeded .southward from Liston Island entering the mouth of the Coppermine 

 Kiver in early .June. He spent the summer on the Coi)permine and Djase Rivers and Dismal Lake. 

 In early November he went to Lani^tan Hay lo communicate with Mr. Anderson, crossing one of the 

 largest unexplored regions in Canada. In April. 1911. Mr. Stefansson an I Mr. Anderson returned to 

 tlie (^)pp('rmine region 



