Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions

The White Mach- Petermann Fjord : White Lava

 

The snow surface became harder and harder, the aneroid and the sledges both indicated a gradual descent, and after six hours a firm, marble-like surface, showing evidence of most violent wind forces, and scored and carved until it looked like a great bed of white lava. Two hours later, land was sighted to the north-west, and yet two hours later I called a halt, with a record of twenty miles for the day.” - Robert E. Peary in Northward over the “Great Ice”, published in 1898

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