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Item 54903
Title: Schooner 'Bowdoin' departs from Castine, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: circa 1950
Location: Castine
Media: Photograph
Item 54904
Title: Schooner 'Bowdoin' in winter quarters, Baffin Island, 1922
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: 1922-04-02
Location: Bowdoin Harbor
Media: photograph
Item 54927
Title: Inuit aboard schooner 'Bowdoin,' West Greenland
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Media: negative
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Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Exhibit
Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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