Battle Harbour National Historic Site
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Dateline Battle Harbour, September 1909: Peary Reaches the Pole
Hot Spot: Pressure Ridges

 
View between the Roosevelt and Cape Columbia
1 of 10 		Pressure Ridge at the Edge of the Polar Sea
2 of 10 		Sledging on the Polar Sea
3 of 10 		Working Sledges Over a Pressure Ridge
4 of 10 		Passing through a Defile in Rough Ice
5 of 10 		A Momentary Halt in the Lee of a big Hummock, North of 88 degrees
6 of 10
Cutting Blocks of Snow for Igloos at the next to last Camp, 89 degrees 25 minutes North
7 of 10 		Camp Morris K. Jessup, 89 degrees 57 minutes, April 6 and 7 1909
8 of 10 		Four North Pole Eskimos (from left to right Ootah, Ooqueah, Seeglo, Egingweah)
9 of 10 		Swinging an Ice Cake across a Lead to form an impromptu Bridge
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