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

CHAPTER XXIII

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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