Arthur worked on the Jeannette's logbooks, whose weather and ice observations have allowed researchers to reconstruct the climate in an area of the Arctic that was then almost unknown. In an age when Arctic ice is fast disappearing, many Old Weather volunteers also see their work as a rescue mission, but with much higher stakes, as the warming Earth makes its own leap into the unknown. It was based on observations gleaned by Old Weather volunteers from the Jeannette's logs, written while the ship was held captive by ice.
It marked the spot where George De Long, the Jeannette's captain, had buried the valuables he had grown too weak to carry. It had found no trace of the Jeannette's crew, who by this time had begun their arduous trek across the ice, hundreds of miles to the west.
They had no way of knowing that, three days earlier, the Jeannette had already been crushed by the ice, and De Long and his shipmates had begun their desperate journey over a no-man's land toward Siberia. When Charles Putnam heard that the Rodgers had been destroyed, he raced south to help his shipmates.
With pack ice closing in, the Rodgers headed south again.
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