Aerial view of Fort Conger.

Diagram showing the location of the original Fort built during the First International Polar Year in 1881 by Adolphus Greely with his expedition members and the three wooden shelters built during Robert Peary’s expedition in 1900. Peary dismantled Fort Conger to build the smaller huts his expedition...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Robert A. Blanchette (669624), Benjamin W. Held (3262596), Joel Jurgens (10035843), Amanda Stear (10035846), Catherine Dupont (10035849)
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Microbiology
Ecology
Sociology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Peary Huts
rot
decay
125 wood samples
Lady Franklin Bay
First International Polar Year
scanning electron microscopy
fort Conger
site
High Arctic Historic
fungi
Arctic
Peary
Fort Conger
Franklin Bay
International Polar Year
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246049.g002
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Summary:Diagram showing the location of the original Fort built during the First International Polar Year in 1881 by Adolphus Greely with his expedition members and the three wooden shelters built during Robert Peary’s expedition in 1900. Peary dismantled Fort Conger to build the smaller huts his expedition members used. Only some floorboards and other timbers are left of Fort Conger but the Peary huts are still standing.

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