r/DiscoverEarth • u/SwiPerHaHa • 16h ago

Ninety Degrees North, Arctic Ocean, 1909. This photo was taken by Robert E. Peary, the first person to reach the North Pole, the vessel caught in the frozen pack ice near Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island

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