BETHEL – Dr. Geoffrey E. Clark will give a presentation on his 2004 expedition to the Canadian Arctic, in which he and his team retraced one of polar explorer Adolphus W. Greely’s most impressive journeys. The presentation will be Monday, May 9, at Gould Academy.

Clark has chronicled the re-creation of the journey by Greely, an Army lieutenant, and his explorers, which was part of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-1884. Greely’s group of 26 men made a retreat from Fort Conger, 400 miles from the North Pole in the high Canadian Arctic, down the coast of Ellesmere Island to Cape Sabine on Pim Island, where they were to have been picked up or resupplied for the winter.

The 2004 expedition, consisting of nine adventurers and filmmakers, gathered at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories in June to begin their own epic journey. Their goal was to highlight one of the most heroic but least-known episodes in the history of polar exploration.

Clark is a retired gastroenterologist from Portsmouth, N.H. He became obsessed with the Greely story when he first visited Ellesmere Island and Fort Conger 18 years ago and read Greely’s book, “Three Years of Arctic Service.” He founded Cocked Hat Ventures LLC to make a documentary film; the 2004 expedition was a part of that film. It was his fourth trip to the Arctic.

His daughter, Anna M. Clark, who graduated from Gould in 2002, accompanied him on a preliminary kayak expedition to Cape Sabine in 2001.

Clark will make a pictorial presentation at 7 p.m. in Trustees Auditorium in Gould Academy’s McLaughlin Science Center. The public is invited.