High Arctic Adventure
Voyage in the Arctic with Host and Lecturer
Alfred S. McLaren
August 2009
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EXPLORERS CLUB
LECTURER & HOST

Captain Alfred S. McLaren (FE ’71), U.S. Navy (Ret.),
Ph.D., is a world-class polar explorer and scientist. He is a President Emeritus of The Explorers Club, and recipient of its Lowell Thomas Medal for Ocean Exploration. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and
the U.S. Naval War College, Capt. McLaren is a veteran
of more than 20 Cold War submarine operations. His
awards as a Cold War submarine captain include the Distinguished Service Medal and two Legions of Merit. He retired as a Captain (O-6) in 1981. As a naval officer, Capt. McLaren made three Arctic expeditions —one onboard USS Seadragon (SSN-584) during the first submerged transit of the Northwest Passage, and two on USS Queenfish (SSN-651): a Baffin Bay cruise and a North Pole expedition and first-ever survey of the entire
 

Siberian Continental Shelf (3,100 nm). Capt. McLaren is a very popular Explorers Club leader, having lectured on more than a dozen voyages. In recent years, he has lectured on voyages to the North Pole; the Canadian, Greenlandic, and Russian Arctic; the Antarctic; the White Sea; and the Russian Far East. He is a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America and a member of the Arctic Club of Cambridge. His area ofscientific research is the role of the Polar Regions in global climate change, and he is the author of more than 50 scientific research papers. Capt. McLaren’s first book, Unknown Waters, A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf, By USS Queenfish (SSN-651) (U. of Alabama Press, 2008) is now in its 3rd printing. Ted Cowan is a Professor of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is an engaging lecturer on a variety of topics, including Viking history. Ted has been leading tours for over a decade. Cam Gillies is an ornithologist who grew up enjoying the birds and Rocky Mountains of British Columbia. He is a keen birder and photographer, and is a co-owner of a birding company in B.C. Born in Igloolik, Pakak Inukshuk is a carver, hunter, drum maker, dancer, director and actor. In the recent,  critically- acclaimed film Sila (The Journals of Knud Rasmussen) he portrays Aua, the last great Inuit shaman in Igloolik (his own great-grandfather). Culturalist Aaju Peter has lived up and down the west coast of her native Greenland and moved to Nunavut, Canada, in 1981. She runs a sealskin garment business, translates, collects traditional law from elders, and recently graduated from Akitsiraq Law School. We will also be joined by additional lecturers from other disciplines and an experienced expedition team.
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