The dark secret behind the search for the phantom Crocker Land

During the search for a phantom land near Greenland that could settle the debate over who really first reached the North Pole, one man never returned from the ice. This is the story of the Crocker Land Expedition, narrated by Dr Henry Patton of mapmyths.com. Archive images and video courtesy of: American Geographical Society Library - https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digit... The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College - https://research.bowdoin.edu/crocker-... The Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/ Original film footage of the expedition courtesy of bowdoin.edu: https://web.archive.org/web/201810080... Accompanying blog post: https://mapmyths.com/blog/crocker-land/ 0:00 Intro 0:58 1. The Lie on the Map 2:16 2. The Expedition Assembles 3:29 3. Chasing the Ghost 4:39 4. Trapped in a Storm 6:01 5. Two Fatal Shots 6:52 6. The Motive? 7:52 7. No Justice on the Ice