THE STEFANSSON EXPEDITION OF 1913 TO 1915 
By Major General A. W. Greely, United States Army 
HE history of polar expeditions 
equals, relatively speaking, that 
of any other phase of explora- 
tion in its romantic episodes of unex- 
pected and thrilling character. The 
retreat of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane across 
Melville Bay, the ice-drift of Captain 
George E. Tyson of eighteen hundred 
miles, the boat journey of Admiral 
George T. Melville to the Lena Delta, 
a ere 
SKETCH MAP TO ILLUSTRATE 
STEFANSSON'S EXPLORATIONS 
1914-1915 
Scale “90 
=-—-/ce journey fo Banks | March—June /9/4 
—-—- Land journey to C Kellett Sept 19/4 
ereeeee Winter journey C. Kellett to Victoria / 19/4-15 
100 ) 200 Miles 
4 
80 
+—+4+=Sea Aoute Burnett Bay to New Land /9/5 
- Return New Land to C Kellett Jul.Aug 1/5 d 
Surveyed by Stefansson x4 & 
CS 
Lands End& <= 
+ en d 
and the rescue of the shipwrecked 
American whalers at Point Barrow by 
Lieutenants D. H. Jarvis and E. P. 
Bertholf, are marvelous successes of 
American adventurers which every red- 
blooded individual reads with rapt at- 
tention and stirred emotions. It seems 
surprising that those who control the 
development of the minds of the rising 
generation do not supplant trashy and 
AS Si 
Courtesy of the American Geographical Society 
The new land in 77° 43’ N. latitude and 115° 43’ W. longitude, was discovered on June 18, 1915. 
It was explored for three days only and through one hundred miles of coast only, but from an elevation of 
2000 feet twenty miles inland, mountains were seen at least fifty miles farther.in all directions to the 
north and east (the land was low to the west). 
The route traveled as shown on the map is of course generalized and the distances fall far short of 
the actual distances covered, which were made longer and indirect because of drift due to contrary winds 
and currents 
339 
