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Captain George Comer: By the Numbers

Some of the amazing statistics Comer accumulated during his 14 Arctic voyages:

  • Typical voyage length: 27 months

  • Total time away from home, 1875-1919: 23 years

  • Number of surviving journals and notebooks: 30

  • Number of photographs taken: 300

  • Number of sound recordings made: 65

  • Number of Inuit artifacts collected for museums: 4,000

  • Number of plaster life masks made: 300

  • Close calls: 2 shipwrecks, 2 near-drownings and 1 attempted shooting

Comer on a ladder

 

Details about the schooner Era's voyage to Hudson Bay, 1903-05:

  • Number of crew members: 20

  • In pounds, amount of bread brought along: 21,803

  • In pounds, amount of coffee brought along: 1,900

  • In pounds, amount of sugar brought along: 1,982

  • In Fahrenheit, coldest temperature registered
    during their stay in Hudson Bay:
    -53 degrees

  • In feet, thickness of ice measured: 6' 3"

 

Comer's men

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