Janet R Collins
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On the Arctic Frontier

Ernest Leffingwell's Polar Explorations and Legacy

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Driven young geologist Ernest deKoven Leffingwell--with assistance from his Inupiat neighbors--completed groundbreaking work on the Arctic frontier. Eager to investigate rumors of land north of Alaska, Leffingwell and fellow 1901 Baldwin-Ziegler Expedition explorer, Ejnar Mikkelsen, organized the 1906 Anglo American Polar Expedition. Although pushed to their limits, the men determined the edge of the continental shelf--a significant geographic discovery. Leffingwell stayed behind, and between 1906 and 1914, pioneered research in ground ice (permafrost), surveyed and documented the geography of...