Fort Conger and huts built by Robert Peary at Lady Franklin Bay, Ellesmere Island.

• 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; Ellesmere Island; Peary; Fort Conger; Franklin Bay; International Polar Year
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246049.g003

(A) Fort Conger as it appeared when it was built in 1881. (B) Peary and his expedition members dismantled the fort in 1900 to make smaller huts more suitable for surviving the Arctic winters. Floor boards, beams and other timbers remain at the site from Fort Conger. (C) Three wooden shelters made from the wood taken from Fort Conger and used by Peary’s expedition are still present at the site.