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Miriam MacMillan
Miriam Norton Look MacMillan | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 13, 1905 |
| Died | August 18, 1987 |
| Nationality | American |
| Partner | Donald Baxter MacMillan |
Miriam Norton Look MacMillan (née Look; June 13, 1905 – August 18, 1987) was an American sailor, author, lecturer, photographer, and explorer.
From 1937 onward she was a chief photographer[1] in nine Arctic expeditions[2] on the Bowdoin schooner to Labrador, Baffin Island, and West Greenland within 660 miles of the North Pole.[2][3]
In 1948 she detailed her 1937–1939 expeditions in her adventure memoirs, Green Seas and White Ice.[4][5]
Throughout her expeditions, MacMillan created thousands of photographs, audio recordings of Inuktitut songs, and films of Umiak sailors.[2][3] She later organized these and Inuit art to curate the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum.[2]
- ^ "A Maine Writer: Maine State Library". www.maine.gov. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Miriam Look MacMillan". Arctic Museum. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
- ^ a b Brochure about Miriam MacMillan by Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College.
- ^ MacMillan, Miriam Look (1948). Green Seas and White Ice. Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Medicine, Naval Medical School (U S. ) Dept of Cold Weather; Medicine, United States Naval Medical School, Bethesda, Md Department of Cold Weather; Hedblom, Earland E. (1961). Polar Manual. National Naval Medical Centre.
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