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Dateline Battle Harbour, September 1909: Peary Reaches the Pole
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View between the Roosevelt and Cape Columbia
1 of 39 		Musk-ox Meat (dogs, sledge, hunter)
2 of 39 		Professor Marvin using an Eighteen-foot whip to drive his Eskimo team at Cape Columbia
3 of 39 		Athletic Sports at the Lead Camp
4 of 39 		Crane City, Cape Columbia, at the time of departure, March 1 1909
5 of 39 		Peary Type of Sledge (12.5 foot long, 7 inches high, with steel shoes 2 inches wide)
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Eskimo Type of Sledge (9.5 feet long, 2 feet wide, 8 inches high, with steel shoes 1.5 inches wide)
7 of 39 		Sledging on the Polar Sea
8 of 39 		Stopped by Open Water South of 85 degrees
9 of 39 		Working through an Expanse of Rough Ice
10 of 39 		A Characteristic View of the Expedition on the March in Fine Weather
11 of 39 		A Standard Team of Eskimo Dogs
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Rough Going
13 of 39 		Repairing sledges in Camp, South of 85 degrees
14 of 39 		Approaching a Lead through Rough Ice
15 of 39 		Captain Bartlett and his Party (Danikpah, Harrigan, Ooqueah, Bartlett)
16 of 39 		Camp at 85 degrees 48 minutes North, March 22 1909
17 of 39 		Pickaxing a Road through Zone of Rough Ice
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