Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1891- Equipment and Food
“My equipment was one of the most modest and inexpensive
ever taken to the ‘White North.’ Yet nothing was omitted that
was essential to our comfort or success... The food supply differed little
from that of the later arctic expeditions. I had a year and a half’s
supplies, with tea, coffee, sugar, and milk in sufficient quantity to last
two and a half years. I took little meat except pemmican for the ice-cap
journey, as I expected to secure an abundance of reindeer and other fresh
meat at my winter camp. Evaporated vegetables in large variety, and beef-meal,
pemmican, and cocoa-tablets had been prepared expressly for the expedition.” -
Robert in Peary, Northward
over the “Great Ice”, published in 1898
Here is a sample of other equipment that Peary carried :
Lumber for a House and Sledge Building
Two Whale-Boats
Two Sledges
Snowshoes and
Norwegian Skis
Alcohol Stoves
Woolen Clothing
Firearms
One Theodolite and One Sextant
Compasses
Five Aneroid Barometers
Hydrometer
Maximum and Minimum Thermometers
A Deep-Sea Thermometer
Eastman No. 4 Kodak Cameras and Film
Rockets
Flint and Steel
Pocket Lamps
