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Dateline Battle Harbour, September 1909: Peary Reaches the Pole
Hot Spot: Crew

 
Pickaxing a Road through Zone of Rough Ice
19 of 41 		Crossing a Lead on an Ice-cake as a Ferry-boat
20 of 41 		Bartlett and his Party ready to start back from 87 degrees 47 minutes North, April 1 1909
21 of 41 		Lifting the 500-lb. Load over a Pressure Ridge
22 of 41 		Working Sledges Over a Pressure Ridge
23 of 41 		Passing through a Defile in Rough Ice
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A Momentary Halt in the Lee of a big Hummock, North of 88 degrees
25 of 41 		Cutting Blocks of Snow for Igloos at the next to last Camp, 89 degrees 25 minutes North
26 of 41 		The Halt for Lunch in the Last Forced March, 89 degrees 25 minutes to 89 degrees 57 minutes
27 of 41 		Camp Morris K. Jessup, 89 degrees 57 minutes, April 6 and 7 1909
28 of 41 		The Reconnoitering Party at the Pole
29 of 41 		Actual Sounding, Five Miles South of the Pole, April 1909, 1500 Fathoms (9,000 feet), no Bottom
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Four North Pole Eskimos (from left to right Ootah, Ooqueah, Seeglo, Egingweah)
31 of 41 		Swinging an Ice Cake across a Lead to form an impromptu Bridge
32 of 41 		Passing over the Bridge
33 of 41 		Last Camp on the Ice on the Return
34 of 41 		Pinnacle near the Short
35 of 41 		Permanent Monument erected at Cape Columbia to mark Point of Departure of North Pole Sledge Party
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