The Canadian government placed the CAE under the responsibility of the Department of Naval Service and the Geological Survey of Canada, and the venture’s new orders emphasize… See more

In June 1913, the expedition departed Victoria, British Columbia, on Karluk, bound for Alaska. In Nome, the expedition purchased two additional schooners, Alaska an… See more

As the Karluk survivors endured on Wrangel Island, the members of the Southern Party spent their first winter at Collinson Point learning how to hunt and travel on th… See more

After his separation from Karluk in 1913, Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent the following winter on the Alaskan coast, trying to replace personnel, supplies and equipment, and eventu… See more