Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: MacMillan, Miriam
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1984
• Subjects: Airplanes; Air transportation; Biographies; Bowdoin (Ship); Education; Expeditions; Explorers; History; MacMillan; Donald Baxter; 1874-1970; Mapping; Marine navigation; Radio; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Canadian Arctic; Canadian Arctic Islands waters; Labrador; Labrador Sea; Nain; Nordgrønland; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Eureka; Island Bay; Baxter; Bowdoin; Eureka Sound; Baffin; Davis Strait; Iceland; North Greenland
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65262

. MacMillan joined Peary's polar expedition in 1908. His life was centered on the Arctic for the next 46 years, most of which he spent aboard the Bowdoin. In fact, Mac's last trip North aboard the Bowdoin came in 1954, when he was 80 years old. Between 1913 and 1917, while in North Greenla...