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The rise and set of Arctic Moon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Hal Vogel ,
Steve Shapiro  and
Daniel Zimmerman
Hal Vogel
Affiliation:
Bozorth Hall, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA.
Steve Shapiro
Affiliation:
Journalism Dept., California Poly. State U., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA.
Daniel Zimmerman
Affiliation:
Fort Dix Museum, Fort Dix, NJ 08640, USA
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Abstract

The recent discovery in a US Government archive of acomplete run of the newspaper Arctic Moon, written during the early months of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–84), permits us to see what this 19th century onice publication looked like and examine its contents, and perhaps judge why it had so brief an existence in the tragic expedition led by Lt A. W. Greely to Ellesmere Island.

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Polar Record , Volume 27 , Issue 160 , January 1991 , pp. 43 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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