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    Adolphus Washington Greely FRSGS (March 27, 1844 – October 20, 1935) was a United States Army officer and polar explorer. He attained the rank of major...
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    the season. It is named in honor of Major General Adolphus Greely. There was an earlier Fort Greely on Kodiak Island. The camp was established in 1942...
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    1881–1884 (a.k.a. the Greely Expedition) to Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic was led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely, and was promoted...
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  • Greely may refer to: Adolphus Greely (1844–1935), American polar explorer and United States Army officer Ann F. Jarvis Greely (1831-1914), American women's...
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    command of LT Adolphus Greely was to write another grueling chapter of suffering and extinction in the history of the Arctic. Greely's Signal Corps volunteers...
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    work of exploration by every means in its power. Joining Walsh were Adolphus Greely, Donaldson Smith, Carl Lumholtz, Marshall Saville, Frederick Dellenbaugh...
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    USS General A. W. Greely (AP-141) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship named for U.S. Army general Adolphus Greely. She was transferred to...
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  • Gakkel Matvei Gedenschtrom Adrien de Gerlache Johann Georg Gmelin Adolphus Greely Pen Hadow Charles Francis Hall Helmer Hanssen Bernhard Hantzsch Sverre...
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    Franklin Bay Expedition, led by U.S. Army First Lieutenant Adolphus Greely. The fort was named by Greely after U.S. Senator Omar D. Conger, who had supported...
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    surviving members of the 25-man Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, led by Adolphus Greely, are rescued by Winfield Scott Schley. One more died on the homeward...
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  • episodes 2011 Inside Narrator 1 episode The American Experience Voice of Adolphus Greely 2009 White Collar Uncle Gary 2007 Grey's Anatomy Dustin Klein Medium...
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  • Sir Edward Sabine (1788–1883), was the site of the winter camp of Adolphus Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition in 1883–1884. Edward Israel Guttridge...
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    re-supply and relief missions repeatedly failed to reach Lieutenant Adolphus Greely's Lady Franklin Bay Expedition in the Arctic, Schley was appointed in...
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    led by Adolphus Greely in 1881 crossed the island from east to west,: 631  establishing Fort Conger in the northern part of the island. The Greely expedition...
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    Adolf (redirect from Adolphus)
    of Nabisco Adolphus Washington Greely (1844–1935), American polar explorer Adolphus Grimes (1913–1998), American baseball player Adolphus Jones (born...
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  • Winfield Scott Jewell Members of the Greely Expedition International Polar Expedition, Adolphus Washington Greely, Report on the Proceedings of the United...
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    Passage, and monitoring the progress of the American expeditions of Adolphus Greely and George W. DeLong. Release from the India Office provided Markham...
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    in 1910. Stefansson, however, preferred the term "Copper Inuit". Adolphus Greely first compiled the sightings recorded in earlier literature of blonde...
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  • Fellows may use the post-nominal designation FRSGS after their names. Adolphus Greely (1890) Adrien de Gerlache (1900) Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1891)...
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    Bay (on Ellesmere Island, Canada). The expedition, led by Lieutenant Adolphus Greely, departed in the summer of 1881, and in 1882, a scheduled resupply...
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    end of the Arthur administration: 3,000 people attended (including Adolphus Greely), and 48 daughters of officials and the social elite assisted her....
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    Schley, who led the four-ship Greely Relief Expedition in 1884 that located and rescued U.S. Army First Lieutenant Adolphus Greely and the six other survivors...
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    Hammond (representing the President of the United States) Major General Adolphus Greely of the United States Army Vice-Admiral Fauques de Jonquieres (representing...
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    resisted freezing over. The Thule were ancestors of the Inuit. In 1882, Adolphus Greely was the first European to discover the lake during his 1881–1883 expedition...
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    County, Pennsylvania, is named the Admiral Peary Highway Major General Adolphus Greely, leader of the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition from 1881 to...
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    Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, US Army Signal Corps expedition led by Adolphus Greely 1882–1883: The Danish Dijmphna expedition travels to the territory...
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    American Arctic explorer Adolphus Greely. Greely Island's area is 127 km2 (49 sq mi) and it is almost completely glacierized. Greely Island is part of the...
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    Greenland and Spitsbergen. Experienced polar explorers were dismissive: Adolphus Greely called the idea "an illogical scheme of self-destruction". Equally...
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    Weather Bureau, which at the time was managed by Brigadier General Adolphus Greely. The indications officer (forecaster), Lieutenant Thomas Mayhew Woodruff...
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    Mountains were first seen by European explorers in 1882 by the explorer Adolphus Greely from Lake Hazen.[citation needed] The Innuitian Mountains' present...
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