Maps and Exploration

Ada Blackjack

Ada Blackjack (née Delutuk; May 10, 1898 – May 29, 1983) was an Iñupiaq woman who accompanied an Arctic expedition to the uninhabited Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, eventually living alone on the island for eight months after the other expedition members left or died.

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See also

• ▸First Kamchatka Expedition
• ▸Columbian exchange
• ▸Cerro de Punta

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