11 Awesome Artifacts You Can See at the Explorers Club
The Explorers Club keeps some odd artifacts in its collection, including a stuffed whale penis.
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The Explorers Club keeps some odd artifacts in its collection, including a stuffed whale penis.
Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s summer, 1895, in the northernmost reaches of Greenland. The temperature hovers around freezing. American explorer Robert E. Peary and his assistant Matthew Henson are on a backbreaking journey by dogsled across the ice cap, from Independence Bay, a large fjord on Greenland’s northeastern corner, to their base camp at Bowdoin Bay on the west coast. They’re nearly out of food, and they’re desperately searching for a herd of musk ox to stave off their deaths by starvation. The animals they’re stalking weigh up to 800 pounds and are...