FIRST AT NORTH POLE
PEARY'S CLAIM DOUBTED RECENT EXPLORATION , "DISCOVERY" NON-EXISTENT ' ■ ..v, . < v*' .\ 1 \ . .:\ (Received October 6, 7.40 p.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. 4 "The land named Crocker Land by Admiral Peary does not exist," said Commander Isaac Schlossbach, when the MacGregor Arctic Expedition returned to Newark, New Jersey, after 16 months in the Arctici' He. added that he was satisfied of this after making more than 20 flights in the region. This revelation again raises the question, whether Peary, was really first to reach the North Poie, as several of his alleged discoveries have been discredited. % I Rear-Admiral R. E. Peary, who died in 1920, was an American Arctic explorer who made a' number of sledging expeditions v into high latitudes from 1891 onward; He claimed to have actually reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. . ;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23161, 6 October 1938, Page 14
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