Captain George Comer was born in April 1858 in Quebec, Canada, and he died in 1937 (aged 79 years) in East Haddam, Connecticut, USA. A well-known whaling captain and an authority on Hudson Bay Inuit, George was also a Polar explorer, cartographer, author and photographer. He made 14 Arctic and 3 Antarctic voyages during his lifetime. George Comer excavated Mount Dundas where he found the evidence of the Thule people who are the ancestors of the Inuits. George Comer was highly regarded for his Arctic anthropology, ethnology, natural history, geography and cartography work. Lacking formal training, George Comer was mentored by anthropologist Franz Boas.
Do you know: George Comer’s first voyage to the Arctic was at the age of 17.
