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The Bear Coast Guard Cutter’s Final Arctic Voyage
A retrospective on the coast guard cutter Bear, its 50th Arctic voyage, and decades of ice battles. Highlights include Greely relief in 1881, the Bear’s role in Alaska mail and rescue work, reindeer industry origins, and legends from crews.
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John Dickinson Sherman Orty
Satmer
United States
Boar
Thetis
Ballin’s Bay
Iigtut
Greenhind
Indian Harbor
Labrador
Greely
Ardlig
Grinnell’s Land
Cape Sabine
Bear
A. W. Greely
Brainard
Greenock
Scotland
Revenue Cutter Service
Coast Guard
Alaska
Life Siving Service
Treasury Department
Navy Department
William Ee. Reynolds
Frederick C. Billard
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Great Lakes
New London
Customs Revenue
Arctic
Buat
Cochran
Billard
Golden Gate
Unalaska
Nome
Sitka
Point Barrow
Aleutian Islands
Lake Superior
New Mexico
California
Bering Sea
Coast Guard Service
McKinley
Francis Tuttle
Nelsonsland
D. H. Jarvis
E. D. Bertholf
S. J. Call
M. A. Healy
E. P. Bertholf
Siberia
Bering Strait
Karluck
Wrangel Island
Siberian
Hooper
Canada
Stefansson
Russia
Philp H. Scott
Salimon
North
Captain Scott
Jock