Role in Arctic Exploration
While searching for the Northwest Passage, a number of polar explorers visited, or spent their winters on, King William Island.
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—Marilyn French (b. 1929)
“Does the first wild-goose care
whether the others follow or not?
I don’t think so he is so happy to be off
he knows where he is going
so we must be drawn or we must fly,
like the snow-geese of the Arctic circle.”
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