Harrison J. Hunt (1878–1967) was surgeon on the

Crocker Land expedition The Crocker Land Expedition took place in 1913. Its purpose was to investigate the existence of Crocker Land, a huge island supposedly sighted by the explorer Robert Peary from the top of Cape Colgate in 1906. It is now believed that Peary fraud ...

to the Arctic in 1913–1917, and the first to return to civilization with news of his fellow explorers, who had been trapped in the ice for four years. Hunt escaped after a grueling four-month dog-sled journey accompanied by six Inuit.''New York Times'', June 21, 1917, p. 6; ''Pittsburgh Press'', Sept. 23, 1917 He wrote about the experience in the book ''North to the Horizon: Arctic Doctor and Hunter, 1913–1917''. Born in

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, Hunt was a graduate of

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and the Bowdoin Medical College. He spent his post-Arctic career working at the Eastern Maine Hospital in Bangor, and was appointed Medical Examiner of

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, in 1925.Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 86 (1926) Hunt is credited with finding the major biological specimens returned by the Crocker expedition, the eggs of the red knot, which established its migration pattern between Europe and northern Greenland.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, Harrison J. 1878 births 1967 deaths American polar explorers American surgeons Bowdoin College alumni Explorers of the Arctic People from Bangor, Maine