![]() ![]() But whatever stories the press turned out came from the imaginations of reporters: Ada Blackjack refused to speak to anyone about her horrific two years in the Arctic. ![]() Following her triumphant return to civilization, the international press proclaimed her the female Robinson Crusoe. This young, unskilled woman-who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband-conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. ![]() In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive twenty-five-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. ![]()
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