Engraving showing the bodies of Captain Delong, Dr. Ambler and another member, of the 'Jeannette' Arctic Expedition of 1879-1881, being found near the mouth of the Lena River, Siberia, 1882. In 1879, an US Navy crew, led by Lieutenant Commander George Washington Delong, embarked aboard the private yacht 'Jeannnette' in an attempt to sail to the North Pole. The 'Jeannette' entered the ice pack, near Wrangell Island, in September 1879 and then drifted north-west, surrounded by ice until June
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