The rise and set of Arctic Moon

Abstract The recent discovery in a US Government archive of acomplete run of the newspaper Arctic Moon , written during the early months of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–84), permits us to see what this 19th century onice publication looked like and examine its contents, and perhaps judge w...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Authors: Vogel, Hal, Shapiro, Steve, Zimmerman, Daniel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1991
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Ellesmere Island
Lady Franklin Bay
Franklin Bay
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400019859
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400019859
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Summary:Abstract The recent discovery in a US Government archive of acomplete run of the newspaper Arctic Moon , written during the early months of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–84), permits us to see what this 19th century onice publication looked like and examine its contents, and perhaps judge why it had so brief an existence in the tragic expedition led by Lt A. W. Greely to Ellesmere Island.

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