The Silent World
- Date of account
- 1931
- Location
- Arctic Ocean, north of Svalbard and Alaska
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Silent World concerns Hubert Wilkins’s 1931 attempt to take the submarine Nautilus beneath the Arctic ice. Mechanical problems, ice conditions and disagreements contributed to the expedition’s failure, making it an important twentieth-century Arctic exploration episode later surrounded by technological and polar legend. It can be compared with maritime catastrophe traditions through themes of descent, enclosure, disorientation and survival under ice. The account is a modern expedition narrative rather than a mythic or paranormal source, and its claims require comparison with naval records and later historical studies.
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