Re: location of north pole

[JohnH]

<x-fontsize>12Peter

Your reply prompts my memory about an piece in Scientific American some years ago. Shadows on photographs of the Peary party at the location and time specified seemed to lend strength to the argument that they were not where they said they were. Truth by sundial !!

I am sorry to say I do not have the reference to that artical - does anybody have it ?

>This is a very lucid reply from Slawomir, but I think it contains one

>error. 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 have a newspaper cutting from
>a fairly recent edition (1996) of the English paper "The Daily Telegraph"
>which details it; if anyone wants the reference I will try to remember to
>sort it out tonight (but as I've said, my memory......). </x-fontsize><x-fontsize>12

John Hall
Department of Architecture
University of Tasmania</x-fontsize>