Leffingwell Camp Site
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leffingwell-camp-site-241-16933680
title:
Leffingwell Camp Site
text:
The Leffingwell Camp Site, on Flaxman Island, 58 miles (93 km) west of Barter Island on the Arctic Coast of Alaska, was used by polar explorer and geologist Ernest de Koven Leffingwell on his pioneering Anglo-American Polar Expedition of 1906–1908, which aimed to explore the Beaufort Sea. The expedition's ship, the Duchess of Bedford, was allowed to become locked in ice which eventually destroyed it. The camp site was chosen before the ship was locked in ice, and was not merely the nearest landf
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United States historic place
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leffingwell_Camp_Site
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date modified:
2023-08-07T22:18:28Z
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