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Voyage to the North Pole | The Skeleton Pack | 4

2024/6/11
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After USS Jeannette sank, Captain George DeLong and his crew had to march south across the Arctic ice towards Siberia, facing challenges such as drifting north faster than they could march south and dwindling food supplies.

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It’s June 1881, and USS Jeannette has been crushed between ice floes and sunk to the bottom of the Arctic Sea. The crew now find themselves stranded on the ice, a thousand miles from Siberia, the nearest inhabited land. If they’re ever going to reach it, they’ll have to endure a brutal march over an inhospitable icescape.

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