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Lives Lost in Polar Exploration

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 6, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 39.

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Lives Lost in Polar Exploration

Beginning with the year 1553, down to 1881, 750 persons lost their lives in the search for the North Pole or the northwest passage, an average of about two a year. This is not serious considering the time, several times surpassed in loss of life by the wrecking of one ship. The greatest number in any expedition was that of Sir John Franklin’s in 1845, when 135 were lost.