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The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd-How Three...

The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd-How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole

Anthony Galvin
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In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans—Frederick Cook and Robert Peary—each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook and Peary tried to convince the world of their claims. Finally the National Geographic Society endorsed Peary, and the matter seemed settled. In May 1926 an American airman, Richard Byrd, flew north in a three-engine plane, and returned with a log showing that he had flow exactly over the geographical North Pole, becoming the third man to reach that mythical spot. National Geographic again supported the claim.
However, it is now obvious that Peary claimed distances he could not possibly have achieved, and it is doubtful that Cooke, who had a history of fraud, ever got even close to the pole. Byrd flew further north than anyone before, but he did not have the fuel to have made the journey he claimed—his log was...

Godina:
2013
Izdavač:
Skyhorse
Jezik:
english
ISBN 10:
1629149683
ISBN 13:
9781629149684
Fajl:
EPUB, 1.47 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2013
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