Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions

1906- 84 N 74 W : Timely Observations

 

peary scientific equipment telescope
Peary used many pieces of scientific equipment, like the telescope pictured above and the sextant mentioned below, to help him make accurate observations and records.

“Satisfactory observations with sextant and transit gave Lat. 84 38 + Longitude 74 W. approx. and Var. 107 ½ W... The ice had ceased its motion entirely now, and in the afternoon of the 31st the young ice on the lead (now some two miles wide) was safe except a strip about 100 feet wide in the centre, with a narrow band of open water in its middle... In the afternoon I had the men cut a sledge road through the rubble ice, bordering the lead, to the young ice, as we might be able to get a start the next day.” - Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907

"Telescope with case and attachments" by Keuffel & Esser Co., circa 1900, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections

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