[robowombat]

And not a Newfie Dog in sight.

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Neither the partisan accounts of Hunt and Niven nor the more balanced analyses by Diubaldo and Jenness consider the possibility that both men may have been deeply at fault. But the evidence brought forward in this article strongly suggests that in spite of their differences they colluded to take the Karluk on a course for which it was entirely unsuitable and with which neither their government sponsors nor most of the men under their command would have agreed . Stefansson's underhandedness makes him the less attractive figure of the two, but that Bartlett shared in the responsibility for the deaths of eleven men cannot be Island, the entire ship;s company would almost certainly have perished.br /> < Bartlett was far more concerned about his men than Stefansson (not content with notifying the world about their
plight, he accompanied the rescue ships himself), but he still took them into dangers about which they had not been informed before they joined the expedition. On the CAE, the lure of the Arctic continent ruled the captain's decisions as well as the commanders Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Robert Bartlett, and the Karluk Disaster: A Reassessment by Janice Cavell* The Journal of the Hakluyt Society January 2017 (revised April 2018) https://www.hakluyt.com/PDF/Karluk.pdf

[Rocky]

Some similarities with the story of the Endurance in Antarctica a year later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition

[BobL]

Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, mentioned above, also lived a full year with the Eskimos, eating exactly their diet, which was virtually zero carbs (80% fat, 20% protein - almost all from meat). He, like them, was in perfect health after that experience. He did later, similar, experiments and only found health problems when he ate lean meat (not enough fat) and, of course, carbs. He was a Ketogenic Diet pioneer, but of course didn’t know it at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson#Advocacy_of_an_exclusively_meat_diet