Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1908- Cape York: A Familiar
Tribe
The
ship and crew rest at Cape York.
“We reached Cape York on the first day of August. Cape York is the bold, bluff headland which marks the southern point of the stretch of arctic coast inhabited by my Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world. It is the headland whose snowy cap I have seen so many times rising in the distance above the horizon line of Melville Bay as my ships have steamed north. At the base of the headland nestles the most southerly of all the Eskimo villages, and it has marked the point of meeting, year after year, between the members of this tribe and myself.” – Robert E. Peary in The North Pole, published in 1910
"S.S. Roosevelt at Cape York" by Donald B. MacMillan, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
