Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1908- North of Cape York: The Great White Mystery
Cape York
“As we steamed northward from Cape York, on the first day of August, 1908, I felt that I was now in truth face to face with the final struggle. Everything in my life appeared to have led up to this day... Through all the seasons of disappointment and defeat I had never ceased to believe that the great white mystery of the North must eventually succumb to the insistence of human experience and will, and, standing there with my back to the world and my face toward that mystery, I believed that I should win in spite of all the powers of darkness and of desolation.” – Robert E. Peary in The North Pole, published in 1910
"Big hills of Northwest Greenland" 1908, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
