. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. nce in the Polar regions, and practicallyprovided for every contingency that mightaiise. While in winter quarters Peaiy hauledhis supplies by sledges to Cape Columbia,whence the dash to the Pole was to expedition left Cape Columbia in six NORTH POLAR EXPLORATION 2C04 NORTH POLAR EXPLORATION divisions, each a day apart, and at the startthe outfit consisted of 7 white men, 19 Es-kimos, 140 dogs and 23 sledges. As themarch procee
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. nce in the Polar regions, and practicallyprovided for every contingency that mightaiise. While in winter quarters Peaiy hauledhis supplies by sledges to Cape Columbia,whence the dash to the Pole was to expedition left Cape Columbia in six NORTH POLAR EXPLORATION 2C04 NORTH POLAR EXPLORATION divisions, each a day apart, and at the startthe outfit consisted of 7 white men, 19 Es-kimos, 140 dogs and 23 sledges. As themarch proceeded, these divisions returned toCape Columbia from time to time until atlast only one division re- laiued. During theadvance, igloos, or Eskimo huts, were builtat each camp. These furnished the most depth soon after leaving Cape soundings show the Arctic Ocean aboutthe Pole to be 12,000 or more feet in discovery tends to dispel the idea pre-viously current that this was a shallow also points to a strong inference that thereis no large body of land near the Pole; in-deed, this has practically been proved. no 120 ISO 160. LEGEND -. PEARY PASSAGE ABRUZZl NANSEN\ NORTH POLAREXPLORATION desirable shelter for the men, and were inreadiness for the party on their returnmarch. With the exception of the drowningof Professor Marvin of Cornell, the entireexpedition returned to the starting pointwithout loss of life. Besides reaching the Pole, the Peary ex-pedition was able to add important data tothe information pre\aously gained about theArctic regions. On his advance march Com-mander Peary took frequent soundings, andby these showed that the ocean increased in On his other exjoeditions to the Arctic re-gions Peary explored and mapped the north-ern coast of Greenland and made extensiveexplorations of the Arctic Arehiioelago. Onhis return voyage in 1897 he brought fromCape York a meteorite which, is the largestof its kind that has ever been disc
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