Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions

1905- Cape Sheridan: Feelings of Relief

the roosevelt ship arctic ice pack peary arctic expedition
The Roosevelt delayed in ice

“The Roosevelt, racing with the incoming pack, was driven through a narrow stream of ice and fairly hurled into a niche in the face of the ice-foot under the extremity of Cape Sheridan and made fast… With my feelings of relief, was a glow of satisfaction that by a hard-fought struggle we had successfully negotiated the narrow, ice-encumbered waters which form the American gateway and route to the Pole; had distanced our predecessors; and had substantiated my prophecy to the Club, that with a suitable ship, the attainment of a base on the north shore of Grant Land was feasible almost every year… The northern-reaching fingers of all the rest of the great world lay far behind us below the ice-bound southern horizon. We were deep in that gaunt frozen border land which lies between God’s countries and inter-stellar space.” - Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907

"ROOSEVELT in ice at Cape Sheridan" 1905-1906, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections

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