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The Greely Expedition

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The Greely Expedition

Season 23 Episode 5 | 52m 12s | CC

An epic story of adventure, abandonment and human tragedy, The Greely Expedition tells of an 1881 scientific mission to the Arctic that ended with death and rumors of cannibalism.

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