The Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands web site (Click here) lists all State Historic Sites (which includes Eagle Island) and State Parks, and has a wealth of information about camping facilities, hiking, fishing, snowmobiling etc. This site is recommended to any visitor to our fine State. To go to the Eagle Island page, click here  and select Eagle Island.

The Bureau has placed on their web site, a complete version of the audio tour which we will offer to Eagle Island visitors, beginning with the 2008 season. Click here to go to this site and listen to the tour.

We welcome boaters to the Island. For information about this, click here. For some useful hints about sailing to the Island and about boating on the Maine coast in general, go to www.boatmaine.us.

 

There are many other web sites relating to Admiral Peary, his explorations as well as earlier and later Arctic explorations, the culture of the Inuits, Arctic geology, etc.

Here are a few of our favorites:

 

• The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, contains one of the world's finest collections of everything related to the Arctic. The Museum is located on the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. During 2008 and 2009, leading up to the centennial of the Pole's discovery, April 6, 2009, the Museum will have special exhibits to commemorate the event. In addition, there is a daily blog tracing his trip through entries from journals kept by members of the expedition. Click HERE for information.
• For an exhaustive study of Arctic navigation, as used by Admiral Peary, go to: Doug Davies' web site.
• The University of Connecticut has a web site with extensive information about the Arctic Circle. Within this site, there is a wonderful page about the Inuits of Greenland. The Inuits were extremely important to Admial Peary, and he to them.
• In April, 2005, a team of explorers from England repeated Admiral Peary's trip in 37 days, using dog teams and similar equipment, the first time this has been done since 1909. Go to this web site for a complete description: http://www.barcapultimatenorth.com/index.php

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Other few web sites will be listed here occasionally, which although not specifically related to the Arctic, may be of interest to visitors to our site:

 

• In Albany, NY there is a museum ship, the USS Slater (DE 766) which is another story of a valiant effort to preserve history and make it available to the public. A connection with Eagle Island is that Cdr. Ed Stafford, Admiral Peary's grandson and our frequent tour guide on the Island, served aboard a DE during World War II and has written a vivid account, "Little Ship, Big War". In August, 2006 he visited the Slater and it brought back  memories.