Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1905- Sukkertoppen: The Breath of the Shore
The village of Sukkertoppen and the surrounding
harbor, taken between 1923-1925
“Thursday Aug. 3d.—A foggy night and cold. This morning the sun shining through a low-lying fog, and a light, but particularly penetrating easterly breeze, the breath of the East Greenland ice inshore of us. The noon sights showed us a little south of Sukkertoppen, and at 2 P.M., an opening in the fog showed us at the Sukkertoppen Islands on the starboard bow. We are past the East Coast ice without seeing a cake of it. Since supper dense fog.”- Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907
"Sukkertoppen" by Donald baxter MacMillan, 1923-1925, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
