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Dateline Battle Harbour, September 1909: Peary Reaches the Pole
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Eskimo in Kayak
1 of 25 		Vigilance at the Wheel
2 of 25 		View between the Roosevelt and Cape Columbia
3 of 25 		Musk-ox Meat (dogs, sledge, hunter)
4 of 25 		Professor Marvin using an Eighteen-foot whip to drive his Eskimo team at Cape Columbia
5 of 25 		Pressure Ridge at the Edge of the Polar Sea
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Stopped by Open Water South of 85 degrees
7 of 25 		Professor Ross G. Marvin, Assistant
8 of 25 		Bob Bartlett, Captain
9 of 25 		Robert E. Peary, Commander
10 of 25 		Matthew A. Henson (he went to the Pole with Peary)
11 of 25 		Peary taking an Observation at the Pole, with Artificial Horizon in a Snow Shelter.
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Passing over the Bridge
13 of 25 		Pinnacle near the Short
14 of 25 		Narwhal killed off Cape Union, July 1909 (the most northerly specimen ever captured)
15 of 25 		Captain Bob Bartlett on the Roosevelt
16 of 25 		Captain Bartlett in the Crow's Nest
17 of 25 		Dr. J.W. Goodsell, Surgeon
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