Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions

1905- Disko Bay: A Considerable Bump


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Taken during a 1947 expedition, this picture, by Rutherford Platt, shows the scenic Disko landscape.

“Friday Aug. 4th.-- … We crossed the Arctic Circle at two o’clock this morning, and Percy, the steward, asserts the bump when the ship went over it, woke him up!! … The noon sights give us 67 37’ north latitude. The water, like glass, and the cliffs of Disko visible 95 miles away. In 68 we passed through a fleet of twenty-seven bergs, the output of the Disco Bay glaciers. During the afternoon a few walrus and two whales were seen. The day has been one of typical Disko Bay summer weather.” - Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907

"Disko!" by Rutherford Platt, July, 19 1947, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

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