Chester County’s Arctic Explorers

New Foundland

The Voyage of the Kite

The Kite moored at St. John's Harbor, New Foundland

 

Samuel Entrikin wrote on the back of this photograph: “This is the first ship I went to Greenland in.”

The Kite was a 280 ton Whaler-Sealer ship, a barkentine with square sails on the front mast and rigged like the schooner on the back two.  Designed to navigate through ice floes, the oaken prow could force its way through powered by coal-fed steam.

 

Imagine the anticipation Entrikin felt to explore and discover uncharted territory.

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Submitted by beth on September 30th, 2010 — 01:41pm

On the Map

  1. Elisha Kent Kane’s furthest north, June 26, 1854
  2. Isaac Israel Hayes’s claim to furthest north on land, May 15, 1861
  3. August 17, 1869, Isaac Israel Hayes reached 75th latitude with William Bradford on board the Panther
  4. Robert Peary Relief Expedition, Summer 1892.
  5. Approximate location of Samuel Entrikin’s northern point with Peary, spring 1893
  6. Anoritok, Greenland, where Harry Whitney stashed the records and instruments of Frederick Cook in September 1909
  7. Mt. Saint Elias, Alaska, Samuel Entrikin attempts to reach in 1897

See the Exhibit

October 8, 2010 — October 15, 2011

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