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MARC recordDr Frederick Cook's North Pole claim: a fifty-year evaluation 1958-2008 / Ted Heckathorn.
| Title: | Dr Frederick Cook's North Pole claim: a fifty-year evaluation 1958-2008 / Ted Heckathorn. |
| Author(s): | Heckathorn, Ted. |
| Date: | 2008. |
| In: | Polar Priorities. (2008.), Vol. 28 (2008) |
| Abstract: | Reviews Cook's claim to have discovered North Pole. Examines four scenarios on Cook, Peary and North Pole; media criticism of Cook in 1909; findings of 1984 expedition on Ruth glacier; and four versions of "Eskimo testimony". |
| Notes: | Polar Priorities. Vol. 28 :2-17 (2008). |
| Keywords: | 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1907-09 Cook. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1908-09 Peary. 93"190" -- 1900-1909. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*301) -- North Pole. (*41) -- Canada. |
| SPRI record no.: | 186839 |
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