On April 6, 1909, Robert Peary planted an American flag on the top of the world. Peary had wanted to travel north since his youth. He had tried the journey years before but had to retreat. This time, he believed he had reached the North Pole. Or had he? How would he know?
2As a Smithsonian historian explains, it can be difficult to know when you have reached the North Pole because it “lies on drifting sea ice . . . there is no way to mark the spot, because the ice is constantly moving.” Years ago, when Peary traveled, it was difficult to confirm exact measurements. Peary marked his position by noting shadows made by the sun. Peary was the only person who knew how to navigate on the journey. No one could check his measurements.
3Peary’s claim
The opening up of the north polar sea between 1815 and 1817 had prompted Barrow to propose a plan to send two expedition voyages, one in search of the Northwest Passage and the other to proceed from the sea of Spitzbergen towards the North Pole. Accordingly he sent the plan to the President and Council of the Royal Society which duly returned with their approval and the orders were issued by the Board of the Admiralty. Examining such interplay between scientific institutions, such as the Royal Society and the British Admiralty, one can see a well defined division of labour, in the collaboration between gentleman scientists at home and their field workers in the navy ship on voyages of exploration, in which the navy sent the ship to collect
Question 4: A) Where is the north pole on the flat map explorer? What is its shape?
Use the interactive diagram at the bottom of the page to determine the direction of the earth’s rotation when viewed from above the North Pole. (Hint: rotate the observer – the stickfigure – to the noontime position, then sunset position, then midnight position, and finally back to sunrise position. The earth has made one complete rotation and the observer has experience one daily (diurnal) cycle of day and night.) When viewed from above the North Pole, does the earth rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise? _counter-clockwise
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England offered 20,000 pounds to anyone who could produce an accurate method of finding longitude at sea. A solution was imperative for “Safety and Quickness of Voyages, the Preservation of Ships and the Lives of Men”, the “Trade of Great Britain” and “the Honour of [the] Kingdom”. But with so much riding on a solution, the board in charge of giving the prize was inundated with hoaxes and false attempts to win the 20,000 pounds. Besides that, the common thought was that an astronomical solution was the answer, not a mechanical one. Because of this, for Harrison to get the board to meet and discuss his clock was almost impossible without support. He took his clock first to Edmond Halley, a member of the Royal Society. Halley was impressed, and sent Harrison to George Graham, a well-known watchmaker. After a full day spent discussing Harrison’s ideas, Graham agreed to become Harrison’s patron, and finally granted him the funds he needed to make his vision a reality. Once the clock was built he took it back to Graham who showed it to the Board of longitude and the Royal Society, “…who gave it a hero’s welcome”. Patronage was essential for the clock to be built, and without Halley’s connections through the Royal Society Harrison would not have received the finances he needed. With support secured Harrison went on to construct his first
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On the date of September 7th, 1909, the New York Times had an article on the front page that stated “Peary Discovers the North Pole after eight trials in 23 years”. Many people had tried to achieve this goal of exploring the north pole and reaching it, but had all failed. However, a week earlier, the New York Herald had printed its own front-page headline: “The North Pole is Discovered by Dr. Frederick A. Cook.” Cook is an American explorer who had seemingly returned from being dead. He was said to have stayed more than a year in the Arctic and had claimed he reached the pole in April 1908 which was exactly a full year before Peary had ever reached the North Pole.
"We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice." This is a quote from famous North Pole explorer Frederick Albert Cook. He, along with explorer Robert Edwin Peary, are well known as the founders of the North Pole. However, nobody knows who the actual founder is. The controversy on who was the first to make it there is an ongoing one, with both explorers claiming to have made it there first. Cook claimed that he had made it a year earlier than Peary, but the argument can go both ways. With evidence supporting both sides, the conflict can go on and on. While both have well detailed journals, some believe that the necessary information is absent, which makes finding a solution difficult. Although resolving a founder for an area should be an easy task, the founder of the North Pole is a mystery we may never fully resolve.
In April of 1909 the North Pole was claimed, Peary made it! Yet, Robert Peary was not alone. Although, Peary would have liked to have claimed the Pole on his own, and as he said it “go it alone” (qtd. in Robinson 1), his plans changed the day he met Matthew Henson, who was by his side throughout every expedition. Many other men attempted to claim the North Pole, but Peary and Henson, two extraordinary men, managed to be the first to reach the “top of the world.” If Robert Peary went to the Pole without Henson he may have been just another man who only attempted.
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Firstly, the reading claims that National geographic society concluded that he had reached the North Pole. The professor opposes this point by saying that The National geography society was the close friends of Peary, and they funded his trip to the North Pole. He states that the investigation that have been recorded, was only of two days. So, this contributes that the society’s calculations were biased and not trust worthy.
Matthew Henson, born on August 8, 1866 and died on March 9, 1955. Explorer Robert Edwin Peary had hired him as his valet for his journeys. After many decades, they had explored the Arctic for two long decades and on April 6, 1909, Henson, Edwin, and the rest of their crew had arrived to the North Pole, being the first ones said to reach the North Pole.
The reading passage and the lecture offer two contrasting views about the Robert.E.Peary's adventure of reaching the North Pole. The article lists three points to support that he reached the North Pole. While, the lecturer counters those points and argues each point made in the passage.