Frederick Cook and the Forgotten Pole

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Osczevski, Randall J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2003
• Subjects: Cook; Frederick Albert; 1865-1940; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Literature; Peary; Robert Edwin; 1856-1920; Amund Ringnes Island; Nunavut; Axel Heiberg Island waters; Meighen Island; Massey Sound; Nansen Sound; North Pole; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Axel Heiberg Island; Cape Thomas Hubbard; Heiberg; Jules; Verne
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63675

In 1909, Dr. Frederick A. Cook created a worldwide sensation when he announced that he had reached the North Pole. Although the debate about Cook's expedition still rages in some circles and new books are published on the controversy each decade, most polar historians and editors of encyclopedi...