Northward over the Great Ice
Robert Edwin Peary (1856–1920), the distinguished American Arctic explorer, is usually credited as the first person to have reached the geographic North Pole, in 1909. First published in 1898, this two-volume work recounts Peary's expeditions across the interior ice-cap of Northern Greenland in...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781139152037 2024-03-03T08:42:02+00:00 Northward over the Great Ice A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891–1897 etc. Peary, Robert E. 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139152037 unknown Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9781108041829 9781139152037 monograph 2012 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139152037 2024-02-08T08:42:05Z Robert Edwin Peary (1856–1920), the distinguished American Arctic explorer, is usually credited as the first person to have reached the geographic North Pole, in 1909. First published in 1898, this two-volume work recounts Peary's expeditions across the interior ice-cap of Northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891–7. It describes Peary's contacts with the local Inuit tribes and the valuable scientific discoveries he made in geography, and natural history. Peary also documents the discovery and conveyance to the United States of the Cape York meteorites, from which the Inuit had extracted iron, but whose whereabouts had been a secret. In Volume 1, Peary recounts his first two expeditions in Greenland. On the first, in 1886, he travelled over the Greenland ice sheet for 100 miles. On the second, in 1891–2, he and seven companions (including his wife) sledged 1300 miles to North-East Greenland. Book Arctic East Greenland Greenland Ice cap Ice Sheet inuit North Pole Cambridge University Press Arctic Greenland North Pole Peary ENVELOPE(-63.867,-63.867,-65.250,-65.250) Cape York ENVELOPE(-87.000,-87.000,73.801,73.801) Cambridge |
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Robert Edwin Peary (1856–1920), the distinguished American Arctic explorer, is usually credited as the first person to have reached the geographic North Pole, in 1909. First published in 1898, this two-volume work recounts Peary's expeditions across the interior ice-cap of Northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891–7. It describes Peary's contacts with the local Inuit tribes and the valuable scientific discoveries he made in geography, and natural history. Peary also documents the discovery and conveyance to the United States of the Cape York meteorites, from which the Inuit had extracted iron, but whose whereabouts had been a secret. In Volume 1, Peary recounts his first two expeditions in Greenland. On the first, in 1886, he travelled over the Greenland ice sheet for 100 miles. On the second, in 1891–2, he and seven companions (including his wife) sledged 1300 miles to North-East Greenland. |
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ENVELOPE(-63.867,-63.867,-65.250,-65.250) ENVELOPE(-87.000,-87.000,73.801,73.801) |
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Arctic Greenland North Pole Peary Cape York |
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