Description: A map of the North Polar Region from 1920 showing the routes of expeditions from 1850–1909 including the site of the sinking of the USS 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 1900, 1902, 1906, and 1909
Place Names: Arctic Region, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Russi
ISO Topic Categories: location,
inlandWaters,
oceans
Keywords: Arctic Region Exploration, physical, historical, physical features, historical event, location,
inlandWaters,
oceans, Unknown, 1850–1909
Source: , Hammond's Modern Atlas of the World (New York, NY: C. S. Hammond and Company, Inc., 1920) 32
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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