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Fred Maurer’s remarkable yet tragic journey as an Arctic explorer saw him venture into the frozen unknown, only to meet an untimely fate on Wrangel Island. Read Part Four Fred Maurer and two other members of the Wrangel Island team never made it to the coast of Siberia or to Alaska. According to Canadian ArcticContinue reading “New Philadelphia to the Arctic: The Incredible Life of Fred Maurer, Conclusion”

Fred Maurer ventured into the Arctic, and to the island on which he had previously been marooned, one last time in the fall of 1921. Read Part Three Fred Maurer made the fateful decision to join a new expedition to Wrangel Island, where he had been stranded just a few years earlier. This new endeavor,Continue reading “New Philadelphia to the Arctic: The Incredible Life of Fred Maurer, Part Four”