>Although Peary is credited with reaching the north pole, if memory >serves me correct (and I admit it frequently does not these days!), >recent research on Peary's diary shows that he did NOT reach the pole. >Worse still, he KNEW he had not made it, but fudged the readings, and was >(and still is) feted as a national hero.
I read a short article a year or two ago (in some science magazine that I have been unable to determine in the last day or so) that had a photograph of a polar expedition, which I assume to be Peary's. The article said that some group was examining photographs taken during the expedition, such as those supposedly taken at the pole, and trying to determine if they were really at the pole at the time based on shadow lengths (and directions?) as seen in the photos. I apologize for not being able to reference the article--however, I thought the measurement of shadows in photographs to determine location might be sufficiently interesting to this list that I could mention having seen it. Ron Doerfler Naperville, Illinois USA
