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

 
Musk-ox Meat (dogs, sledge, hunter)
19 of 63 		Professor Marvin using an Eighteen-foot whip to drive his Eskimo team at Cape Columbia
20 of 63 		Athletic Sports at the Lead Camp
21 of 63 		Crane City, Cape Columbia, at the time of departure, March 1 1909
22 of 63 		Peary Type of Sledge (12.5 foot long, 7 inches high, with steel shoes 2 inches wide)
23 of 63 		Eskimo Type of Sledge (9.5 feet long, 2 feet wide, 8 inches high, with steel shoes 1.5 inches wide)
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Sledging on the Polar Sea
25 of 63 		Stopped by Open Water South of 85 degrees
26 of 63 		Working through an Expanse of Rough Ice
27 of 63 		A Characteristic View of the Expedition on the March in Fine Weather
28 of 63 		A Standard Team of Eskimo Dogs
29 of 63 		Rough Going
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Repairing sledges in Camp, South of 85 degrees
31 of 63 		Approaching a Lead through Rough Ice
32 of 63 		Captain Bartlett and his Party (Danikpah, Harrigan, Ooqueah, Bartlett)
33 of 63 		Camp at 85 degrees 48 minutes North, March 22 1909
34 of 63 		Professor Ross G. Marvin, Assistant
35 of 63 		Pickaxing a Road through Zone of Rough Ice
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