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Harrison Hunt
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Hunt escaped after a grueling four-month dog-sled journey accompanied by six Inuit He wrote about the experience in the book North to the Horizon: Arctic Doctor and Hunter, 1913–1917 (Camden, Maine: 1930). Born in Bangor, Maine, Hunt was a graduate of Bowdoin College (class of 1902) and the Bowdoin Medical College (class of 1905). He spent his post-Arctic career working at the Eastern Maine Hospital in Bangor, and was appointed Medical Examiner of Penobscot County, Maine in 1925.
Hunt is credited with finding the major biological specimens returned by the Crocker expedition – eggs of the red knot, which established its migration pattern between Europe and northern Greenland.
