Hannah Tookoolito Taqulittuq

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tookoolito-inuit-explorer-arctic?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=1b659adc3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_11_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-1b659adc3a-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=1b659adc3a&mc_eid=8e9014a039 what happened after Hall’s demise when the surviving crew aboard the USS Polaris became locked in ice on Smith Sound in October 1872. We want to know how, when the ship’s hull was crushed, 19 crew members spent six months stranded on the Arctic ice floes and survived. That is Tookoolito’s story. The local knowledge and resourcefulness of the Inuit guide and her husband, Ebierbing, saved the lives of the Polaris crew.