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MARC recordSextant, speeds and drift: the polar journey of Frederick Albert Cook and the discovery of the North Pole, April 21, 1908 / Sheldon S.R. Cook.
| Title: | Sextant, speeds and drift: the polar journey of Frederick Albert Cook and the discovery of the North Pole, April 21, 1908 / Sheldon S.R. Cook. |
| Author(s): | Cook, Sheldon S. R. |
| Date: | [2009] |
| Publisher: | Pittsburgh, PA: Polar Publishing Company |
| Abstract: | Discusses historical and scientific evidence supporting claim of Frederick Albert Cook to have discovered North Pole in April 1908, in particular testimony of Inuit which corroborated and substantiated Cook's own account of journey. |
| Keywords: | 91(091) -- Exploration, history. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1908-09 Peary. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1907-09 Cook. 93"190" -- 1900-1909. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*301) -- North Pole. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-PAM: 91(08) : (*3)[1908 Cook] |
| SPRI record no.: | 188807 |
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