Timeline: The Arctic Voyage of the Polar Bear
The following is a timeline of the voyage aboard the Polar Bear, well documented through the journals of Bernhard Kilian, Dunbar Lockwood, Eben Draper and William Hudson's Icy Hell.
April 26th, 1913
Bogoslof Island
On Bogsolof Island, where the men found hundreds of small skeletons of marine life. These peaks are the highest points of the island, the rest being an average of 20 to 25 feet above sea level.MAP
May 1st, 1913
Siberia
Four Siberian sheep heads and a portrait of Samuel Mixter, holding a gun, with one of the heads. MAP
May 10th, 1913
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Two native men in boats, in the foreground sawing a log, another boat in the background, coastline in the background.MAP
June 2nd, 1913
St. Lawrence Island
Hulin S. Mott and an Eskimo, holding reindeer's reigns, coastline in the background.
Close-up of a reindeer in a harness.MAP
June 3rd, 1913
on board POLAR BEAR
(L) Dunbar Lockwood and Samuel Mixter with a walrus pup on board the ship after killing it's mother. (M) Five umiaks with natives in them arriving at the schooner Polar Bear. (R) Arctic landscape of the coastline with dwellings along it, open water in the foreground with miscellaneous ice chunks.MAP
June 4th, 1913
John Howland Bay
Two adults and three children standing in front of a dwelling. William Hudson and natives of Emma Harbor on board the Polar Bear.MAP
June 5th, 1913
John Howland Bay
Two native men in front of umiak frames on storage racks. Portrait of an Arctic woman in front of a dwelling.MAP
June 6th, 1913
Indian Point
A side profile portrait of an arctic woman wearing animal skins, sitting on a rock. Profile of two natives with a child on one's shoulders. MAP
June 7th, 1913
Indian Point
(L) Portrait of a mixed race boy. (M) Portrait of a young girl. (R) Portrait of two women standing face-to-face.MAP
June 8th, 1913
near East Cape
(L) A group portrait of Captain Louis Lane with a Russian judge and his wife aboard the Polar Bear. (M) East Cape coastline. (R) Portrait of a native East Cape woman in front of a dwelling. MAP
June 9th, 1913
East Cape
Four crew members sitting on the deck.
Left to right: Joseph Dixon, Dunbar Lockwood, W. Sprague Brooks, Samuel Mixter.MAP
June 16th, 1913
Indian Point, Siberia
(L) Two women and a child standing in front of a dwelling. (M) A native girl sitting aboard the Polar Bear. (R) Portrait of Sam Brown Jr. and Sam Brown Sr., both natives of Indian Point, Siberia, aboard the schooner Polar Bear. MAP
June 17th, 1913
Indian Point, Siberia
Siberian Eskimo boys with bird bolas. Boats on boat racks at Indian Point.MAP
June 18th, 1913
Indian Point, Siberia
Two kids holding a camera in front of a dwelling. Two arctic girls sitting in the remains of the steamer Admiral.MAP
June 19th, 1913
Emma Harbor
Natives standing with a child in front of their dwelling. Possibly taken at Emma Harbor, "Plover Bay", Chukchi Peninsula.MAP
June 24th, 1913
St. Lawrence Island
Man holding the reindeer's reigns, sled in the foreground, arctic structures and coastline in the background. Reindeer grazing in a field on St. Lawrence Island.MAP
June 30th, 1913
Arctic
Six men on board the schooner POLAR BEAR playing cards on deck, far left: unknown, left top to bottom: Mixter, Silsbee, and unknown, right top to bottom: unknown, Draper.MAP
July 8th, 1913
Nome, Alaska
Portrait of an Arctic native, "Eskimo Tommy" a crew member from Nome. Umiak frames on a beach at Nome.MAP
July 18th, 1913
Cape Serge
Crew member Ivan Klebnikov in a kayak with Captain Louis Lane looking over the edge of the vessel. Shortly thereafter Ivan turned the kayak over and had to climb back aboard the vessel.MAP
August 3rd, 1913
Manning Point
Working slowly toward Manning Point with Elvira following closely to the Polar Bear.MAP
September 4th, 1913
On Board POLAR BEAR
Individual portrait of John Heard, sewing winter clothes on board the schooner Polar Bear and portrait of Dunbar Lockwood doing the same. MAP
September 8th, 1913
Alaska
(L) Portrait of an arctic woman on a vessel with three dogs.
(M) Portrait of three native men with three dogs.
(R) Crew member sewing winter clothing out of caribou skins.MAP
September 10th, 1913
near Pokok Lagoon, Alaska
Cutting into a channel to bring the Polar Bear closer to the shore. Man has fallen into the water and is being pulled out.MAP
September 14th, 1913
near Pokok Lagoon, Alaska
Hauling supplies ashore to winter camp with Elvira in the distance. Possibly Bernhard Kilian preparing a trail to move supplies from the Polar Bear to shore.MAP
September 16th, 1913
Pokok Lagoon, Alaska
Dog attached to dog sled with supplies on it and an image of the frame of the crew's house at Pokok.MAP
September 21st, 1913
On board the Polar Bear
Portrait of Siberian Eskimo leader, Napasak. Image of a man standing in the doorway of a dwelling with a mountain in the background. MAP
October 10th, 1913
Pokok Lagoon, Alaska
Alex Stefansson and mother at Pokok, on their way to Collision Point. Portrait of Alex Stefansson sleeping.MAP
October 27th, 1913
Kongakut River
Three men standing around the sled, overland party going south, up the Kongakut River.MAP
October 28th, 1913
Kongakut River
Captain Louis Lane standing in front of a tent with a can and a spoon in his hands. Overland party going south, up the Kongakut River.MAP
November 27th, 1913
Pokok Lagoon, Alaska
Thanksgiving dinner at Pokok camp.
Back row: Ole Nervik, Hermann Kilian. At the table, left to right: Billy Mogg, Ivan Klebnikov, unknown, unknown, Joseph Dixon, Hulin S. Mott, Ed Morris, native, Samuel Mixter, Bernhard Kilian.
MAP
November 30th, 1913
Circle, Alaska
Overland party leaving Circle, Alaska. Horses pulling a sleigh of wood with men standing near the sled, dwelling and mountains in the background.MAP
July 1st, 1914
Arctic
George Isbester, Hermann Kilian, and Bill Seymour standing with the fish that they caught, with a dwelling in the background. Image of salmon drying on a rack at Pokok.MAP
July 12th, 1914
Native Camp near Pokok
Two individual portraits of native men. A portrait of a young girl and a portrait of a man and woman. MAP
July 28th, 1914
Herschel Island, Alaska
(L) Man carrying a large bundle of baleen with dwellings in the background. (M) Eskimo child with a toy bow-and-arrow. (R) An abandoned house at Herschel Island. MAP
July 29th, 1914
Herschel Island, Yukon
(L) Men coming ashore from the schooner North Star. (M) Image of the schooner Alaska. (R) North Star, Mary Sachs, and Alaska of Canadian Arctic Expedition at Herschel Island. MAP
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