. Scottish geographical magazine. n specially fitted out with a view to oceano-graphical work, and more particularly to deep-sea dredging. Pearys Results.—The accompanying sketch map, for which, together with thefollowing note, we are indebted to the American Geographical Society, shows theregion from Melville Bay to 84° 17 N., the point Mr. Peary attained last springin his remarkable sledge journey over the ice of the Arctic Ocean. This isthe region in which his great explorations of the past twelve years have beenmade. As the map is designed specially to show the localities in which he hasla
. Scottish geographical magazine. n specially fitted out with a view to oceano-graphical work, and more particularly to deep-sea dredging. Pearys Results.—The accompanying sketch map, for which, together with thefollowing note, we are indebted to the American Geographical Society, shows theregion from Melville Bay to 84° 17 N., the point Mr. Peary attained last springin his remarkable sledge journey over the ice of the Arctic Ocean. This isthe region in which his great explorations of the past twelve years have beenmade. As the map is designed specially to show the localities in which he haslaboured during his last four years visit to Greenland, his earlier work is not 652 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. indicated, excepting his sledge routes over the inland ice between the neighbour-hood of Inglefield Gulf and Independence Bay ; his earlier -work, however,includes surveys of Inglefield Gulf and adjacent coasts, and of the northern andnorth-eastern coasts of ISIelville Bar, the locating of the Cape York meteorites,. 39:W^ C. Washin^ton^UfLOCKWOOO S !r c Kane FARTHEST-.(fe A. PEAflVB?!>*>. FAHTH EST?^ Wffla HUNT ;?( Coast B#HALL LANb /^* / .0 (8O S fffS^ £. ^ _ Carl Ritter B LAND Jiawlingt B- •-Pelerma]r ^ or South//^/ V K 25o6^?l^-0/.f ieaiorfi/l;WA§tej6T0N LAND-^^<=. ^ ^^ ^«V f H/^^^dt Glacier ^ SCHXEYLAND PAVCn HARBOFWINTER QRS, ELLESMERE
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