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Arctic Explorer Stefansson Defies Odds On Ice Floes
The article recounts Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Arctic experiment with companions surviving on ice floes, Wilkins locating them alive, and Stefansson's philosophy of preparedness. It notes Stefansson's influence on later explorers including Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins and contrasts traditional fear with his method of living off the polar sea.
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Umberto Nobile
Arctic
Obile
Northland
Vilhajalmar Stefansson
Stefansson
George Wilkins
Stefans- Bon
Stefanson
Wilkins
Torker Storkerson
Ole Andraesen
New York
Sir George Hubert Wilkins
America
Arctic Sea
Point Barrow
Alaska
Spitsbergen
Mayor Walker
City Hall
Sir George
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Stefanason
Polar
Star
Banks
George Hubert Wilkins
Banks Island
Aska
Spitzbergen
Mary Sachs
An Is Sland
Storkerson
Andreasen
Peterson
Alaskan
Aretic
Stefana
Richard E. Byrd
U.S. N
Geo
Carl Ben Ejelson
Vilhjalmar Stefansson