19 Facts About Jeannette expedition

De Long, whom Bennett chose to lead the Jeannette expedition, was a serving United States Navy officer with previous Arctic experience.

Jeannette expedition thought the current would weaken or even penetrate the protective ice ring, and that a sturdily-built steamer following the course of the stream might thus be able to break through into the supposed polar sea.

Jeannette expedition approached Henry Grinnell, a philanthropic shipping magnate who had funded several previous expeditions.

Jeannette expedition had won renown in 1872, when his reporter Henry Morton Stanley, sent by Bennett to Africa in search of the British missionary-explorer David Livingstone, cabled that Livingstone had been found.

Jeannette expedition theorized that this land formed part of a transpolar continent, connected to Greenland; if so, it might provide an alternative, land-based route to the pole should the expedition fail to find a portal to the polar sea.

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Jeannette expedition's requests included the use of a supply ship to accompany Jeannette as far as Alaska.

The thick plume of smoke from Jeannette expedition's stack, observed by whalers, was the final sighting of Jeannette expedition by the outside world.

Shortly afterwards, Jeannette expedition was sealed within the pack, "as tightly as a fly in amber" according to historian Leonard Guttridge.

Jeannette expedition's syphilis began to take toll of his body, particularly his left eye which, despite Ambler's repeated operations—stoically endured, given the lack of anesthetic—left the navigator largely incapacitated and unable to perform his duties.

Early in 1881, De Long noted that after sixteen months, Jeannette expedition was still only 220 nautical miles from the point where she had been trapped.

Jeannette expedition left Danenhower in charge, with instructions to lead the party to Bulun as soon as practicable, and from there to proceed as best he could to Yakutsk, a large city hundreds of miles to the south.

Public interest in the Jeannette expedition had been high since the first news of the ship's fate had been received from Yakutsk.

In February 1883, the board announced its findings: Jeannette expedition was a fit vessel for Arctic service; difficulties such as the late start and the diversion to search for news of Vega were not De Long's fault, nor was he to blame for the ship's loss.

Jeannette expedition had conducted the subsequent retreat in an exemplary manner.

Harber and Schuetze's role and considerable other detail on the expedition were included in President Chester A Arthur's second State of the Union address.

In October 1890, a large monument to the Jeannette expedition's dead was unveiled at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

On June 18,1884, wreckage from Jeannette expedition was found on an ice floe near Julianehab, near the south-western corner of Greenland.

Jeannette expedition's wife survived with a gunshot wound to the shoulder, but both the niece and Bartlett died.

The last survivor of the Jeannette expedition was Herbert Leach, who became a factory worker; he lived until 1935.