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Dateline Battle Harbour, September 1909: Peary Reaches the Pole

 
Working Sledges Over a Pressure Ridge
73 of 139 		Passing through a Defile in Rough Ice
74 of 139 		A Momentary Halt in the Lee of a big Hummock, North of 88 degrees
75 of 139 		Cutting Blocks of Snow for Igloos at the next to last Camp, 89 degrees 25 minutes North
76 of 139 		The Halt for Lunch in the Last Forced March, 89 degrees 25 minutes to 89 degrees 57 minutes
77 of 139 		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
79 of 139 		Camp Morris K. Jessup, 89 degrees 57 minutes, April 6 and 7 1909
80 of 139 		The Reconnoitering Party at the Pole
81 of 139 		The Double Team of Dogs used with Reconnoitering Sledge at the Pole
82 of 139 		Peary taking an Observation at the Pole, with Artificial Horizon in a Snow Shelter.
83 of 139 		Actual Sounding, Five Miles South of the Pole, April 1909, 1500 Fathoms (9,000 feet), no Bottom
84 of 139
Peary's Igloo at Cape Morris K. Jessup, April 6 1909
85 of 139 		Four North Pole Eskimos (from left to right Ootah, Ooqueah, Seeglo, Egingweah)
86 of 139 		Looking toward Cape Columbia
87 of 139 		Swinging an Ice Cake across a Lead to form an impromptu Bridge
88 of 139 		Passing over the Bridge
89 of 139 		Last Camp on the Ice on the Return
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