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Profile: Ike Schlossbach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Peggy Goodrich  and
Bernard Stonehouse
Peggy Goodrich
Affiliation:
Neptune Historical Museum, Neptune NJ 07753 USA.
Bernard Stonehouse
Affiliation:
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER UK.
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Abstract

Born in Neptune, N J USA of immigrant stock in 1891, Issac Schlossbach became a graduate of the US Naval Academy and a pioneer in naval submarines and aviation. Invalided from the navy after the loss of one eye, he served with Sir Hubert Wilkins in the Nautilus submarine expedition to the Arctic in 1931, with Richard Byrd in Antarctica in 1933–35, and as navigator, pilot or observer in eight further north and south polar expeditions, He made his final visit to Antarctica with Operation Deepfreeze in 1960–61 at the age of 70, dying in his home town after a long and active retirement in 1984.

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Polar Record , Volume 24 , Issue 149 , April 1988 , pp. 119 - 124
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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