Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1898- Sydney: A Nip in the Ice
A view of the frozen seas from the Hope
After the Hope passed through Sydney, the rest of the passage north to Etah was speedy and uneventful. Below, Peary mentions a minor problem in the dreaded Melville Bay Area:
“Pushing rapidly northward and omitting the usual calls at the Danish Greenland ports, Cape York was reached after a voyage, uneventful except for a nip in the ice of Melville Bay, which lifted the Hope bodily, and for a few hours seemed to contain possibilities of trouble.” -Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907
"Floe-ice from bowsprit of the Hope" by Professor Burton, 1896, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Musem Collections
