Summary: | Introduction -- Sir John Franklin, 1818 -- Franklin's first land journey, 1819-1821 -- Franklin's second land journey, 1825-1827 -- The Erebus and the Terror, 1845 -- Elisha Kent Kane, 1853 -- Winter in Rensselaer Harbor, 1853-1854 -- The Eskimos, 1854 -- Hunting in the icy north -- Home again, 1855 -- Nordenskjöld and the Northeast Passage, 1878-1879 -- Voyage of the Jeannette, 1879-1881 -- Greely in Grinnell land, 1881-1883 -- Farthest north of the Greely party, 1882 -- Lieutenant Schwatka in Alaska, 1883 -- Nansen crosses Greenland, 1888 -- The voyage of the Fram, 1893-1896 -- Peary crosses Greenland, 1891-1897 -- Andrée's balloon expedition to the pole, 1897 -- Expeditions of 1902 -- Discovery of the North Pole by Robert E. Peary, 1909.
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