The Arctic: Exploration Timeline
Arctic Timeline: Ancient Times from 330 BC to 1000 AD
Arctic Timeline from 1594-1610
Arctic Timeline from 1725-1779
Arctic Timeline from 1776-1779
Arctic Timeline from 1819-1831
Arctic Timeline from 1845-1873
Arctic Timeline 1878
Arctic Timeline from 1879-1882
Arctic Timeline from 1882-1884
Arctic Timeline from 1886-1909
Arctic Timeline from 1893-1895
Arctic Timeline from 1903-1905
Arctic Timeline from 1910-1915
Arctic Timeline from 1918-1925
Arctic Timeline 1930
Arctic Timeline 1958
Arctic Timeline from 1970-1990s
Arctic Timeline from 1993-1998
Arctic Timeline from 2007-2008
W. S. Schley and his relief expedition crew with the six survivors of the Greely Expedition, June 1884.
Source: Reynold, Francis J. The United States Navy From The Revolution To Date, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1918, p63.
1882-1884
Adolphus Greely leads an American expedition to Ellesmere Island as part of the First International Polar Year (1882-1883) to set up a new observation station in the Arctic. His junior officer Lt. Lockwood establishes a farthest north, breaking the record that had held for three centuries. Only 6 of the 24 expedition members survive.
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