Biografie
He travelled in 1860 in the schooner United States (133t) with the goal of reaching the North Pole via an "open polar sea" which he believed to exist. After meeting ice in Smith Sound he spent the winter at Foulke Fjord south of Etah Greenland.
They made a sled journey to 80 degrees 30 minutes North. After the vessel was damaged they returned in the summer of 1861. The astronomer A. Sontag died at winter quarters.
Referenzen
- Struzik, Edward (1991)
- Baird, P.D. (1949)
