Peary the Pole

1996-09-23 Thread RUSS, Brian
There is another slant to this question to which I'm prompted by the memory of (another ) Nat. Geographic article of many years ago. It included a picture of the US base at the South Pole with a set of markers pushed into the snow which traced the actual position of the pole over a period.

Re: Peary the pole

1996-09-21 Thread Slawomir K. Grzechnik
Hi Just few words more. I do not think we have any material to prove or disprove Peary's reaching the North Pole. There are only few institutions that could do the investigation professionally and possibly fairly and we know that this is very hard. This is unbelievable but fairness sometimes may

Re: Peary the pole

1996-09-19 Thread Rory Sellers
: Peary the pole Date: Wednesday, September 18, 1996 2:37 AM It is interesting to find the various replies concerning the doubt about Peary actually reaching the pole, which I seem to have started. It is especially interesting since I was about to eat a huge slice of humble pie and apologise

Peary the pole

1996-09-18 Thread Peter Tandy
It is interesting to find the various replies concerning the doubt about Peary actually reaching the pole, which I seem to have started. It is especially interesting since I was about to eat a huge slice of humble pie and apologise to Slawomir, readers of this information and Peary himself,