Chester County’s Arctic Explorers
On the Map
- Elisha Kent Kane’s furthest north, June 26, 1854
- Isaac Israel Hayes’s claim to furthest north on land, May 15, 1861
- August 17, 1869, Isaac Israel Hayes reached 75th latitude with William Bradford on board the Panther
- Robert Peary Relief Expedition, Summer 1892.
- Approximate location of Samuel Entrikin’s northern point with Peary, spring 1893
- Anoritok, Greenland, where Harry Whitney stashed the records and instruments of Frederick Cook in September 1909
- Mt. Saint Elias, Alaska, Samuel Entrikin attempts to reach in 1897
See the Exhibit
October 8, 2010 — October 15, 2011
