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: The Great White North The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole by Wright Helen S Helen Saunders - Arctic regions; North Pole

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Early adventurers. Pytheas.--Dicuil.--Other.--Wulfstan.--The Norsemen.--Iva Bardsen.--The Cabots.--The Cortereals.--Willoughby and Chancellor.--Stephen Burrough.--Niccol? Zeno.--Frobisher.--Pet and Jackman.--Sir Humphrey Gilbert.--Davis.--Barentz 1

Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Hudson.--Baffin.--Deshneff.--Behring.--Schalaroff.--Tchitschagof.--Anjou and Von Wrangell.--Phipps 18

Dr. Hayes's expedition. Winter quarters at Port Foulke, Greenland coast.--Death of Sonntag.--Dr. Hayes's journey.--Attempt to cross Smith Sound.--Hayes's farthest.--"Open Polar Sea."--Homeward bound 235

Dr. Frederick A. Cook.--Claims discovery of the Pole.--His return from the Arctic.--Reception by the Danes.--Announcement of conquest of the Pole by Peary.--Denounces Dr. Cook.--Acceptance of Peary's claims by the American Geographical Society.--Dr. Cook sends manuscript to Copenhagen.--Verdict.--Prior claim to the discovery of the North Pole.--Not proven 470

EXPLANATION OF TERMS 477

INDEX 481

Hondius his Map of the Arctike Pole, or Northerne World xx

FACING PAGE

Sebastian Cabot 3

Sir Hugh Willoughby 7

Martin Frobisher 10

Sir Humphrey Gilbert 14

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