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Dateline Battle Harbour, September 1909: Peary Reaches the Pole
Images: Landscape

 
Lifting the 500-lb. Load over a Pressure Ridge
37 of 65 		Working Sledges Over a Pressure Ridge
38 of 65 		Passing through a Defile in Rough Ice
39 of 65 		A Momentary Halt in the Lee of a big Hummock, North of 88 degrees
40 of 65 		Cutting Blocks of Snow for Igloos at the next to last Camp, 89 degrees 25 minutes North
41 of 65 		Members of the Party cheering the Stars and Stripes at the Pole, April 7 1909
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The Five Flags at the Pole
43 of 65 		Camp Morris K. Jessup, 89 degrees 57 minutes, April 6 and 7 1909
44 of 65 		The Reconnoitering Party at the Pole
45 of 65 		The Double Team of Dogs used with Reconnoitering Sledge at the Pole
46 of 65 		Actual Sounding, Five Miles South of the Pole, April 1909, 1500 Fathoms (9,000 feet), no Bottom
47 of 65 		Peary's Igloo at Cape Morris K. Jessup, April 6 1909
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Looking toward Cape Columbia
49 of 65 		Swinging an Ice Cake across a Lead to form an impromptu Bridge
50 of 65 		Passing over the Bridge
51 of 65 		Last Camp on the Ice on the Return
52 of 65 		Approaching the Peaks of Cape Columbia on the Return Journey, over the Surface of the Glacial Fringe
53 of 65 		Back on the Glacial Fringe (Land ice of Grant Land near Cape Columbia, April 13 1909)
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