“FARTHEST NORTH”
WHO DISCOVERED- NORTH ' POLE? BIG CONTROVERSY REVIVED. BY RONALD AMUNDSEN’S LEITURE. United Press Assn.—Copyright.) NEW YOIHv Jan. 24. The question*as to who discovered the North Poles has been, reopened following a lecture by Captain Ronald Amundsen before a .Forth North Tentaudience, in which he said Cook’s story of the discovery' is just as plausible as Capt. Peary’s, and deplored the weight given to the testimony of Eskimos, whereon Cook was discredited. Capt. Amundsen recently visited Cook in prison and talked over old times, both having been together m Antarctic expljratims in 1807. Steffnnson was inclined to credit Peary’s data, pointing out his own observations in 1915 showed land which Peary called Crocker Land. Major-General Adolphus Greeley, the noted Arctic explorer, commenting on Gapt. Amundsen’s etatements, said that neither Cook nor Peary had ever reached the North Pole. Major-General Greeley' conducted an Arctic expedition as early at 1881, reaching the farthest north up to that time, and discovering new land north of Greenland.—Sun cable.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11011, 26 January 1926, Page 5
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