This bold map of the Arctic regions appeared in National Geographic Magazine in November of 1925 with the article "The MacMillan Arctic Expedition Returns." In this article, the world would discover the man who would soon be the most famous aviator-explorer of the era: Richard E. Byrd. Filled with detailed explorers routes, this is a wonderful companion to the North Pole Regions map of 1907. The 1925 Arctic Regions map features: • Detailed insets of the Ellesmere Island region, Spitsbergen, and Franz Josef Land • Routes of explorers including flights of US Navy planes in the MacMillan Arctic Expedition, 1925 • Warm and cold ocean currents and courses of icebergs • Land elevation indicated by color • Glaciers and ice caps • Railways
Coverage Area: Arctic polar region, Alaska, northern Canada, northern Russia, Greenland, Spitzbergen and Franz Josef Land, Sweden, Norway, and Finland
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