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The Great White North: The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the poleWright, Helen S. (Helen Saunders)

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The Great White North: The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole

Name: The Great White North: The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole
Author: Wright, Helen S. (Helen Saunders)

Wright, Helen S. (Helen Saunders)

Arctic regions; North Pole

Journeys of Dr. A. Bunge and Baron E. von Toll.—Exploration in
    Spitzbergen.—Sir Martin Conway.—Dr. A. G. Nathorst.—Professor
    J. H. Gore.—Andrée’s balloon expedition to the North
    Pole.—Search for Andrée by Theodor Lerner.—J. Stadling.—Dr.
    A. G. Nathorst.—Captain Bade.—Walter Wellman’s plan to reach
    the Pole from Spitzbergen.—Italian expedition under Duke of
    Abruzzi.—Loss of the _Stella Polare_.—Captain Umberto Cagni’s
    journey.—Breaks the record.—Retreat.—Home.—Baldwin-Ziegler
    expedition of 1900.—Complete equipment.—Return of expedition
    in autumn.—Ziegler expedition under Anthony Fiala.—The
    _America_ reaches high northing.—Winters in Triplitz Bay.—Is
    destroyed.—Failure of sledge journeys.—Relief ship does not
    come.—Second winter.—Return of party by _Terra Nova_ in 1903       417

                              CHAPTER XXII

    Otto Sverdrup.—Four years’ voyage of the _Fram_.—Journeys in
    Ellesmere Land.—Important exploration of Jones Sound.—Discovery
    of new lands.—Release of the _Fram_.—Captain Roald
    Amundsen.—The voyage of the _Gjoa_.—Reaches head of Petersen
    Bay (King William Land).—Two years’ stay.—Valuable scientific
    observations.—Visits from Eskimos.—Sledge journeys.—Release
    from the ice.—August 14, 1906.—Completion of the Northwest
    Passage.—Another Arctic winter.—Sledge journey of Amundsen to
    Eagle City.—Release of the _Gjoa_.—Reaches San Francisco, 1907     435

                              CHAPTER XXIII

    Robert E. Peary.—The man.—First visit to the Arctic,
    1886.—Other journeys, 1891.—Independence Bay,
    Greenland.—Discovers Melville Land and Heilprin
    Land.—Subsequent journeys, 1893-1895.—Discovery of famous “Iron
    Mountain.”—Summer voyages, 1896-1897.—North Pole journey of
    1898.—Peary seriously disabled by frost-bites.—Polar expedition
    in S.S. _Roosevelt_, 1905-1906.—Final dash for the Pole, 1908      455

                              CHAPTER XXIV

    Dr. Frederick A. Cook.—Claims discovery of the Pole.—His return
    from the Arctic.—Reception by the Danes.—Announcement of
    conquest of the Pole by Peary.—Denounces Dr. Cook.—Acceptance
    of Peary’s claims by the American Geographical Society.—Dr.
    Cook sends manuscript to Copenhagen.—Verdict.—Prior claim to
    the discovery of the North Pole.—Not proven                        470

    EXPLANATION OF TERMS                                               477

    INDEX                                                              481




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


    Commander Robert Edwin Peary                             _Frontispiece_

    Hondius his Map of the Arctike Pole, or Northerne World             xx

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    Sebastian Cabot                                                      3

    Sir Hugh Willoughby                                                  7

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