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Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

Capt. MacMillan departure, Wiscasset, 1925

Capt. MacMillan departure, Wiscasset, 1925

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MacMillan, a geology major at Bowdoin, served as ornithologist on Peary's voyage.

MacMillan then began his own voyages to Labrador and Greenland. He traveled to the Arctic until 1954, when he was 80.


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