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Dateline Battle Harbour, September 1909: Peary Reaches the Pole
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Working Sledges Over a Pressure Ridge
19 of 34 		Passing through a Defile in Rough Ice
20 of 34 		A Momentary Halt in the Lee of a big Hummock, North of 88 degrees
21 of 34 		Cutting Blocks of Snow for Igloos at the next to last Camp, 89 degrees 25 minutes North
22 of 34 		The Halt for Lunch in the Last Forced March, 89 degrees 25 minutes to 89 degrees 57 minutes
23 of 34 		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
25 of 34 		Camp Morris K. Jessup, 89 degrees 57 minutes, April 6 and 7 1909
26 of 34 		Actual Sounding, Five Miles South of the Pole, April 1909, 1500 Fathoms (9,000 feet), no Bottom
27 of 34 		Four North Pole Eskimos (from left to right Ootah, Ooqueah, Seeglo, Egingweah)
28 of 34 		Swinging an Ice Cake across a Lead to form an impromptu Bridge
29 of 34 		Last Camp on the Ice on the Return
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Memorial erected to the Memory of Professor Ross G. Marvin at Cape Sheridan
31 of 34 		Peary distributing utensils to Wives of his Hunters at Etah
32 of 34 		Curing Codfish on Battle Harbour, Labrador
33 of 34 		1909 Peary Expedition to North Pole: Four men sitting on sledge on the Roosevelt, at Battle Harbour
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