Miriam MacMillan

Miriam Norton Look MacMillan
BornJune 13, 1905
DiedAugust 18, 1987
NationalityAmerican
PartnerDonald Baxter MacMillan

Miriam Norton Look MacMillan (née Look; June 13, 1905 – August 18, 1987) was an American sailor, author, lecturer, photographer, and explorer.

From 1937 onward she was a chief photographer[1] in nine Arctic expeditions[2] on the Bowdoin schooner to Labrador, Baffin Island, and West Greenland within 660 miles of the North Pole.[2][3]

In 1948 she detailed her 1937–1939 expeditions in her adventure memoirs, Green Seas and White Ice.[4][5]

Throughout her expeditions, MacMillan created thousands of photographs, audio recordings of Inuktitut songs, and films of Umiak sailors.[2][3] She later organized these and Inuit art to curate the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum.[2]

  1. ^ "A Maine Writer: Maine State Library". www.maine.gov. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Miriam Look MacMillan". Arctic Museum. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Brochure about Miriam MacMillan by Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College.
  4. ^ MacMillan, Miriam Look (1948). Green Seas and White Ice. Dodd, Mead.
  5. ^ Medicine, Naval Medical School (U S. ) Dept of Cold Weather; Medicine, United States Naval Medical School, Bethesda, Md Department of Cold Weather; Hedblom, Earland E. (1961). Polar Manual. National Naval Medical Centre.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)