Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1891- Freeing the Kite
The Kite fighting ice floes
“On the evening of the 16th, the Kite was nipped between two big floes, and all other efforts to free her failing, holes were drilled in the ice, in which bottles of gunpowder were placed. They were simultaneously exploded, blowing out a large piece of ice, and the ship, being put astern, was soon relieved from her dangerous situation.” - Robert E. Peary, Northward over the Great Ice, published in 1898
"The Kite under Sail" by Emil Diebitsch, 1892-1894, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
