The legend of the "Gedania" voyage through the Northwest Passage

• Published in: International Journal of Canadian Studies
• Main Author: Gabryś, Marcin
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Northwest Passage; sailing; yacht; sailors; Poland; Arctic policies in the 1970s; Pierre E. Trudeau; sovereignty; passage du Nord-Ouest; navigation; marins; Pologne; politique relative à l’Arctique dans les années 1970; souveraineté; Arctic; Canada; Peine; Resolute Bay; Arctique*; Northwest passage; Passage du Nord-Ouest
• Online Access: https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/288074; https://doi.org/10.3138/ijcs.60.x.1

This article analyzes a largely unknown voyage undertaken by Capitan Dariusz Bogucki in the summer of 1975 through the Northwest Passage on-board a Polish yacht called Gedania. This expedition was one of the first attempts to navigate the Arctic straits aboard a small sailing vessel and, although un...