Description: A map of the North Polar Region from 1921 showing the routes of expeditions from 1850–1909 including the site of the sinking of the Jeanette, the route and date that Peary first reached the North Pole (April 6, 1909), and 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.
Place Names: Arctic Region, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Russi
ISO Topic Categories: oceans,
location,
inlandWaters
Keywords: Arctic Regions, borders, expedition, physical, historical, country borders, historical event, oceans,
location,
inlandWaters, Unknown, 1921
Source: L.L. Poates, Poates Complete Atlas of the World (New York, NY: Poates Corporation , 1921) 2
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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