Hubert Wilkins, a young Australian photographer, was seconded by the Gaumont Company to Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913 – 16 as

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official photographer. Having sailed north on board Karluk, he joined the group led by Stefansson that left the ship to go ashore on a hunting trip after Karluk became beset in the ice off the North Slope. Hence he did not experience the subsequent sinking of that ship or the dramas and hardships of...