Description: A map of the North Polar Region from 1909 showing the routes of expeditions from 1850–1909 including the site of the sinking of the Jeanette, the routes of McClure (1850–1853), the German expeditions of 1869–1870, Nordenskiold (1878–1879), De Long (1881), Nansen (1893–1896), Sverdrup (1898–1902), Abruzzi (1899–1900), and the Peary expeditions of 1902 and 1906. The map has been revised to show the route and date that Peary first reached the North Pole in red (April 6, 1909).
Place Names: Arctic Region, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Russi
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters
Keywords: Arctic Region Exploration, local jurisdictions, political, local jurisdictions, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters, Unknown, 1850–1909
Source: C. S. Hammond, Hammond's Handy Atlas of the World (New York, NY: C. S. Hammond & Company, 1911) 91
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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