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

 
View between the Roosevelt and Cape Columbia
1 of 36 		Musk-ox Meat (dogs, sledge, hunter)
2 of 36 		Surveyiing Clements Markham Inlet
3 of 36 		Professor Marvin using an Eighteen-foot whip to drive his Eskimo team at Cape Columbia
4 of 36 		Athletic Sports at the Lead Camp
5 of 36 		Peary Type of Sledge (12.5 foot long, 7 inches high, with steel shoes 2 inches wide)
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Eskimo Type of Sledge (9.5 feet long, 2 feet wide, 8 inches high, with steel shoes 1.5 inches wide)
7 of 36 		Sledging on the Polar Sea
8 of 36 		Stopped by Open Water South of 85 degrees
9 of 36 		Working through an Expanse of Rough Ice
10 of 36 		A Characteristic View of the Expedition on the March in Fine Weather
11 of 36 		A Standard Team of Eskimo Dogs
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Typical Camp on the Ice
13 of 36 		Rough Going
14 of 36 		Repairing sledges in Camp, South of 85 degrees
15 of 36 		Approaching a Lead through Rough Ice
16 of 36 		Captain Bartlett and his Party (Danikpah, Harrigan, Ooqueah, Bartlett)
17 of 36 		Camp at 85 degrees 48 minutes North, March 22 1909
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