Capturing How Rapidly The Arctic Ocean Is Gaining Fresh Water
In April of 1909, he and Henson, along with Ootah, Egigingwah, Seegloo and Ooqueah their Inughuit companions, reached their furthest north. Peary, on his return, claimed to have reached the North Pole, but subsequent analysis has cast his claim in doubt. The most exhaustive study, Sir Wally Herbert’s The Noose of Laurels, concludes reluctantly that Peary’s claim is unsupportable, but there are still some who claim Peary could have created it. Through the subsequent march from Sunday to Monday, April 18th to 19th, there was a continuation of the fine climate and we had been still coming along on my...