The Crocker Land Expedition took place in 1913. Its purpose was to investigate the existence of Crocker Land, a huge island supposedly sighted by the explorer...

named it Crocker Land, after George Crocker of the Peary Arctic Club. As Peary's diary contradicts his public claim that he had sighted land, it is now...

suburban Daly City. The neighborhood is adjacent to Crocker-Amazon Park, named after the Charles Crocker land holdings that once made up the area, and Amazon...

Spiral," which personifies madness and deceit. Novels portal Crocker Land Bradley Land Mills, W. J., 2003, Exploring polar frontiers: a historical encyclopedia...

an assortment of human, animal, utilitarian and abstract images. The Crocker Land Expedition Collection consists of over 200 artifacts and hundreds of...

Pacific Railroad. Crocker was born in Troy, New York on September 16, 1822. He was the son of Eliza (née Wright) and Isaac Crocker, a modest family. They...

acted as a guide and translator for visitors, playing a key role in the Crocker Land Expedition of 1913–1917. At that time, Minik decided to return to the...

the coast of Axel Heiberg Island. Crocker Land Sannikov Land Balch, Edwin Swift (1913). The North Pole and Bradley Land. Philadelphia: Campion and Company...

professor who served as geologist, ornithologist and botanist on the Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917). Walter Elmer Ekblaw was born in Champaign County...

(August 16, 1888 – December 2, 1947) was an arctic explorer on the Crocker Land Expedition and a writer. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on August...

Greenland, Robert Peary's failed attempts at the North Pole, the ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition of 1913, the Humphrey Expedition of 1934–35, the MacGregor...

never existed. 1906 German map showing Keenan Land north of Alaska Bradley Land Crocker Land Sannikov Land Mills, William James (2003). Exploring Polar...

He organized and commanded the ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition to northern Greenland in 1913. Crocker Land turned out to be a mirage. The expedition...

Betty Crocker Cookbook is a cookbook written by staff at General Mills, the holders of the Betty Crocker trademark. The persona of Betty Crocker was invented...

Peary Arctic Club, with gifts of $50,000 from George Crocker, the youngest son of banker Charles Crocker, and $25,000 from Morris K. Jesup, to buy Peary a...

1881 - October 25, 1944) was a professor of entomology, a member of the Crocker Land Expedition and is considered to be a pioneer in modern beekeeping. Tanquary...

George Crocker (February 10, 1856 – December 4, 1909) was an American businessman and a member of the wealthy Crocker family. A member of Tuller & Co....

Russian expedition aboard Foka, led by Georgy Sedov 1913: Crocker Land Expedition to search for Crocker Island, a hoax reported by Robert Peary 1913–1918: Canadian...

Goldman 1944, p. 138 MacMillan, Donald B. (October 1918). "In Search of Crocker Land". Four Years in the White North (first ed.). New York: Harper & Brothers...

nearly brought the extinction of caribou in northern Greenland; the Crocker Land Expedition (1913–1916) also extensively hunted muskoxen. In response...

the island in the film is located due north of Ellesmere Island (cf. Crocker Land). Several extra characters and the airship Hyperion appear in the film...

excavated in 1916 by whaling Captain George Comer, ice master of the Crocker Land Expedition's relief team, and of members of Knud Rasmussen's Second Danish...

Charles Crocker acquired the largest part of the holdings of this rancho amounting to 3,997 acres (1,618 ha), and that land devolved to the Crocker Estate...

Lawrenceville Maurice Cole Tanquary A professor of entomology and member of the Crocker Land Expedition. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System:...

northwest of Ellesmere Island, in order to clear up the questions about Crocker Land, which Robert Peary placed on the map more than 30 years earlier. In...

South Seas Expedition, the Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition, the Crocker Land Expedition, and the expeditions to Madagascar and New Guinea by Richard...

American Association of Thoracic Surgery Harrison J. Hunt, surgeon on the Crocker Land Expedition to the Arctic in 1913–1917, and the first to return to civilization...

dropped, Crocker had died in 1888 and his similarly-named son, Charles Frederick Crocker, had died in 1897. Instead, it was the Crocker Land Company which...

Bartlett rescued the members of Donald Baxter MacMillan's ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition, who had been stuck on the ice for four years. From 1925 to...

Robert Peary claimed to have sighted Crocker Land around 83° N, and in 1909, Frederick Cook sighted Bradley Land at 85° N, both at locations occupied...