Walter wellman biography

Walter Wellman (1858-1934) was a life-long journalist and Washington correspondent for a major Chicago newspaper, but his abiding passion was exploration.

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During his Washington years, he carried out five expeditions toward the North Pole (three of them by airship); an expedition to Watling Island (San Salvador) in the Bahamas to locate the first landfall of Columbus; and, in 1910, an aborted airship flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Walter Wellman was born in Mentor, Ohio, in 1858, and died in New York City of liver cancer in 1934. His book about his polar expeditions was published in 1911 as The Aerial Age. Other significant articles on polar subjects authored by Wellman include “Where is Andrée?” (1898); “Sledging Toward the Pole” (1900); “An Arctic day and night” (1900); “The polar airship” (1906); “By Airship to the North Pole” (1907); and “Will the “America” Fly