Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lieutenant-Commander De Long” in entry de-long-george-washington of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...ng northward the vessel was caught in the pack-ice, Sept. 5, 1879, off Herald Island, and, after drifting 600 miles to the northwest in a devious course, was crushed by the ice, June 13, 1881.
Thus Lieutenant-Commander De Long and his crew were adrift in the Arctic Sea 150 miles from the New Siberian Islands and more than 300 miles from the nearest point of the mainland of Asia.
With his party he started southward, and o...
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