Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1902- Cape Richardson: A Speedily Built Igloo
An example of the arctic ice foot
“Beyond Black Cape the ice-foot improved in character, and I pushed along to camp at Alerts’ winter quarters… one march from here carried us to Cape Richardson, and the next under the lee of View Point, where we were stopped and driven to build our igloo with all possible speed by one of the common Arctic gales. There were young ice, pools of water, and a nearly continuous water-sky all along the shore.” -Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907
"Ice foot remains - Im-nah-wa-luk" by Donald Baxter MacMillan, 07/29/1922, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
