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MacMillan Polar Expedition Sails From Boston by Air
The MacMillan polar expedition sails from Boston aboard the Peary with three amphibian airplanes and navy support to map a vast Arctic region. John Reinartz and B. F. McDonald join as radio experts. naval officers and scientists accompany the voyage aimed at hydrographic surveying and studying Ellesmere Island Grant Land Baffin Island and Norse ruins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Reinartz
Manchester
Conn
MacMillan
Reinartz
Eugene F. MacDonald
Associated Press
Boston
Mass
Donald B. MacMillan
Charleytown Navy Yard
Polar Regions
Bunker Hill
Theodore G. Robertson
Secretary of the Navy
United States
Butler
Gillette
Fuller
Qurley
Washington, D. C
Mandril- Jan-Navy
Fmnat
North Poly
Alaska
Ellesmere Island
Grant Land
Baffin Island
Labrador
Greanland
Far North
Etudiati
Cape Hubbard
Hidesmere Island
Columbia
Greenland
Martin Frobisher
Mora
Wilizabeth
Gothaab
Wiscasset
National Geographic Society
Arctic
Wilbur
North Pole
Peary
Geographic Society
Navy
John Reinartz
South Manchester
B. F. McDonald
Chicago
Radio Broadcasters' League of America
Walter N. Koelz
Benjamin H. Riggs
Jacob J. Gayer
Maynard Owen Williams
The
Steele
George F. Steele
Roxbury
Massi
Bowdoin
Ralph Robinson
Merrimac
John Jaynes
Somerville
Etak