From the 1830’s to the 1960’s, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was an important base for exploration of the Polar regions. This program with Yard historian Andrew Gustafson will span from the Wilkes Expedition (1838-1842) that charted portions of the Antarctica coast, through Robert Peary’s numerous attempts at the North Pole (1886-1909), and the many Cold War-era programs to map, patrol, and fight in the Arctic Ocean, the new frontline between nuclear-armed US and USSR.
- Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition by Charles Wilkes
- “What Lies Beneath,” discovery of Franklin Expedition wrecks for CBC News
- Safe Return Doubtful by John Maxtone-Graham
- Give Me My Father’s Body by Kenn Harper
- “The Eskimos Finally Go Home,” Washington Post, July 6, 1993
- “Minik and the Meteor” by Allison C. Meier for Narratively
- Lipsius Cook House in Bushwick, Brooklyn
- “Who Discovered the North Pole?” Smithsonian Magazine
- “The Legacy of Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson,” National Geographic
- The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford
- Submarine Force Library and Museum, USS Nautilus