Engraving showing the yacht 'Jeannette' in the Arctic pack ice, during the expedition of 1879-1881. An US Navy crew, led by Lieutenant Commander George Washington Delong, embarked aboard the private yacht 'Jeannnette' in 1879 in an attempt to sail to the North Pole. The 'Jeannette' entered the ice pack, near Wrangell Island, in September 1879 and then drifted north-west, surrounded by ice until June 1881. On the 12th June 1881, the 'Jeannette' was crushed by the ice and sank, leaving it
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