American Experience S23E10: The Greely Expedition
- Aired: 2011-01-31
- Time: 20:00:00
- Runtime: 60 minutes
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Overview
In 1881, 25 men led by Adolphus Greely set sail from Newfoundland to Lady Franklin Bay in the high Arctic, where they planned to collect a wealth of scientific data from a vast area of the world's surface that had been described as a "sheer blank." Three years later, only six survivors returned, with a daunting story of shipwreck, starvation, mutiny, and cannibalism.