Robert Bartlett (explorer)
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Robert Abram Bartlett (August 15, 1875 – April 28, 1946) was a
Early life
Born in
Career
Bartlett spent more than 50 years mapping and exploring the waters of the Far North and led over 40 expeditions to the Arctic, more than anyone before or since.
Bartlett was captain of the
In 1914, Bartlett's leadership in the doomed
In 1917, Bartlett rescued the members of Donald Baxter MacMillan's ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition, who had been stuck on the ice for four years.[6]
From 1925 to 1945, at the command of his own schooner,
In 1931, Bartlett starred as Captain Barker in the film The Viking about a sealing ship in Newfoundland. The film was shot on location and during the filming of several action scenes, the ship on which filming was taking place exploded, killing 28 men. Despite this, the film was still released. In it, Bartlett plays the captain of the sealing vessel The Viking who is proud of his reputation for never having lost a man.[7]
Death
Bartlett died when he was 70 in a
Awards and honors
In 1909, Bartlett was awarded the
He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the
In fiction
Author Eric Walters documented some of the aspects of his journey to find Arctic islands in the historical novels Trapped in Ice and The Pole. Bartlett and Kataktovik's journey through Chukotka, Siberia is recounted as an episode in Chukchi author Yuri Rytkheu's novel A Dream in Polar Fog.[11]
Further reading
- Harold Horwood, Bartlett, The Great Explorer, Toronto: Doubleday, 1977.
- Robert A. Bartlett. The Last Voyage of the Karluk. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1916.
- Robert A. Bartlett. The Log of "Bob" Bartlett. New York & London: G. P. Putnam, 1928.
- Jennifer Niven. The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk and the Miraculous Rescue of her Survivors. New York: Hyperion, 2000.
- (also) Niven, Jennifer (2001). The Ice Master. London: Pan Books. ISBN 0-330-39123-2.
- (also) Niven, Jennifer (2001). The Ice Master. London: Pan Books.
- Robert A. Bartlett. The Log of Bob Bartlett. St. John's: Flankers, 2006 (reprint).
- Maura Hanrahan. Unchained Man: The Arctic Life and Times of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett. Portugal Cove-St. Philip's: Boulder Publications Archived 2018-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, 2018.
- Buddy Levy. Empire of Ice and Stone. St. Martin’s Press, 2022.[12]
References
- ^ http://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/exploration/bob-bartlett.php navigator
- ISBN 0-385-09984-3.
- OCLC 8484128.
- ^ Higgins, Jenny (2008). "The Karluk Disaster". Memorial University of Newfoundland. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
Although an admiralty commission later criticized Bartlett for agreeing to take the Karluk into the Arctic and allowing a group of four to travel south on their own, the press and public celebrated him as a hero. The Royal Geographic Society gave him an award for outstanding bravery and many survivors credited him with saving their lives, particularly William Laird McKinley, who later wrote: "there was for me only one real hero in the whole [Karluk] story – Bob Bartlett. Honest, fearless, reliable, loyal, everything a man should be" (Niven 366).
- ^ Niven (2001 edition), pp. 357–67
- ^ The Province Town Banner (7 Feb 2008)
- ^ "The Viking (1931)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ^ "Around the World". Time. August 29, 1927. Archived from the original on February 20, 2008. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
- ^ "American Geographical Society Honorary Fellowships" (PDF). amergeog.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-07-04. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
- ^ Canada Post Details, July to September 2009, Volume XVIII, No. 3, p. 16
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- ^ Akers, W. M. (29 November 2022). "Arctic Explorers Trapped in a Frozen Hell". The New York Times.
"The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster", by William Laird McKinlay
External links
- Works by Robert Abram Bartlett at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by Robert Bartlett at Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Works by Robert Bartlett at Open Library
- Works by or about Robert Bartlett at Internet Archive
- The Papers of Robert A. Bartlett at Dartmouth College Library