NORTH POLE
DEBATE ON DISCOVERY.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
(Recd. 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 24.
The question who discovered the North Pole was reopened, following a lecture by Amundsen, before a Fort Worth tent audience, in which he said that Cook’s story of discovery is just as plausible as Peary’s and deplored the weight given to the testimony of Eskimos, whereon Cook was discredited.
Amundsen visited Cook in prison and talked over old times, both having been together in the Antarctic explorations in 1897.
Stefansson is inclined to credit the Peary data, pointing out that his own observations in 1915 showed land which Peary called Crockerland. Major-General Adolphus Greeley, a noted Arctic explorer, commenting on Amundsen’s statements, said that neither Cook nor Peary ever reached North Pole. Greeley conducted an Arctic expedition early in 1881 and reached furthest north up to that time, discovering new land north of Greenland.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 January 1926, Page 5
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