In 1921, a small crew set off from Nome in Alaska to Wrangel Island, 85 miles off the northeast coast of Siberia. Due to her work on this expedition, Ada Blackjack would be lauded in the press a couple of years later - tune in for the story!

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ada-blackjack-arctic-survivor
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ada-blackjack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Blackjack
https://archive.org/details/adventureofwrang00stef/page/262/mode/2up?view=theater
https://www.joyvspicer.com/joy-blog/2020/2/28/ada-blackjack-unlikely-arctic-survivor
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/09/25/109851589.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island
https://www.nytimes.com/1922/03/20/archives/stefansson-claims-wrangell-island-for-great-britain-the-expedition.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson
http://www.litsitealaska.org/index.cfm?section=History-and-Culture&page=Life-in-Alaska&viewpost=2&ContentId=850
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