Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions

Taken much later by Donald Baxter MacMillan, this image shows the intense beauty of the arctic skies

“During all this time, there were signs of coming atmospheric disturbances of more than usual intensity: a precipitation of fine frost crystals, with transient snow squalls; exquisite cloud effects formed and vanished in and over McCormick Bay, while over the Inland Ice wicked looking white cumuli grew against a dark lead-coloured sky. The night temperatures at this time were -1 degrees and -2 degrees F.” - Robert E. Peary in Northward over the “Great Ice”, published in 1898

"Clouds Above Choppy Water" by Donald Baxter MacMillan, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections

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