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

 
Pickaxing a Road through Zone of Rough Ice
19 of 36 		Crossing a Lead on an Ice-cake as a Ferry-boat
20 of 36 		Bartlett and his Party ready to start back from 87 degrees 47 minutes North, April 1 1909
21 of 36 		Lifting the 500-lb. Load over a Pressure Ridge
22 of 36 		Working Sledges Over a Pressure Ridge
23 of 36 		A Momentary Halt in the Lee of a big Hummock, North of 88 degrees
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The Halt for Lunch in the Last Forced March, 89 degrees 25 minutes to 89 degrees 57 minutes
25 of 36 		Camp Morris K. Jessup, 89 degrees 57 minutes, April 6 and 7 1909
26 of 36 		The Reconnoitering Party at the Pole
27 of 36 		Actual Sounding, Five Miles South of the Pole, April 1909, 1500 Fathoms (9,000 feet), no Bottom
28 of 36 		Four North Pole Eskimos (from left to right Ootah, Ooqueah, Seeglo, Egingweah)
29 of 36 		Passing over the Bridge
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Last Camp on the Ice on the Return
31 of 36 		Approaching the Peaks of Cape Columbia on the Return Journey, over the Surface of the Glacial Fringe
32 of 36 		Back on the Glacial Fringe (Land ice of Grant Land near Cape Columbia, April 13 1909)
33 of 36 		Peary Type of Sledge
34 of 36 		Peary Sledges on board the Roosevelt
35 of 36 		1909 Peary Expedition to North Pole: Four men sitting on sledge on the Roosevelt, at Battle Harbour
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