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Schwatka was an American explorer who took the longest and safest sledge journey up to that time to recover Franklin records in the Arctic. He brought back the largest collection of artifacts from that expedition.
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Why is it important?
The journey was over land applying survival techniques of the Inuit. He was an American in pursuit of Arctic exploration in an era that was dominated by British. The expedition was sponsored by an American newspaper and one of the participant was a journalist. Little writing about Schwatka's expedition was completed up to this piece. Important as his work was, it is still relatively ignored in polar literature.
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This page is a summary of: Frederick Schwatka and the search for the Franklin expedition records, 1878–1880, Polar Record, May 2008, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0032247407007140.
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