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

 
A Narrow Escape
37 of 63 		Crossing a Lead on an Ice-cake as a Ferry-boat
38 of 63 		Bartlett and his Party ready to start back from 87 degrees 47 minutes North, April 1 1909
39 of 63 		King Eskimo Dog
40 of 63 		Lifting the 500-lb. Load over a Pressure Ridge
41 of 63 		Working Sledges Over a Pressure Ridge
42 of 63
Passing through a Defile in Rough Ice
43 of 63 		Cutting Blocks of Snow for Igloos at the next to last Camp, 89 degrees 25 minutes North
44 of 63 		The Halt for Lunch in the Last Forced March, 89 degrees 25 minutes to 89 degrees 57 minutes
45 of 63 		Camp Morris K. Jessup, 89 degrees 57 minutes, April 6 and 7 1909
46 of 63 		The Reconnoitering Party at the Pole
47 of 63 		The Double Team of Dogs used with Reconnoitering Sledge at the Pole
48 of 63
Actual Sounding, Five Miles South of the Pole, April 1909, 1500 Fathoms (9,000 feet), no Bottom
49 of 63 		Four North Pole Eskimos (from left to right Ootah, Ooqueah, Seeglo, Egingweah)
50 of 63 		Swinging an Ice Cake across a Lead to form an impromptu Bridge
51 of 63 		Passing over the Bridge
52 of 63 		Last Camp on the Ice on the Return
53 of 63 		Approaching the Peaks of Cape Columbia on the Return Journey, over the Surface of the Glacial Fringe
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