![]() ![]() Upon Ada's miraculous return after two years on the island, the international press heralded her as the female Robinson Crusoe. Soon after, she found herself totally alone. When three of the men made a desperate attempt to seek help, Ada was left to care for the fourth, who was too sick to travel. As months went by and they began to starve, they were forced to ration their few remaining provisions. But as winter set in, they were struck by hardship and tragedy. They took with them six months' worth of supplies on Stefansson's theory that this would be enough to sustain them for a year while they lived off the land itself. Only two of the men had set foot in the Arctic before. It was controversial explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson who sent four young men and Ada Blackjack into the far North to colonize desolate, uninhabited Wrangel Island. ![]()
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