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NEAREST THE POLE
THE GEOGRAPHICAL LIBRARY
The Opening of Tibet, By Perceval Landon
Flashlights in the Jungle, By C. G. Schillings
The Passing of Korea, By Homer B. Hulbert
Fighting the Polar Ice, By Anthony Fiala
Nearest the Pole, By R. E. Peary, U. S. N.

“NEAREST THE POLE”

COMMANDER ROBERT E. PEARY PLANTING THE AMERICAN FLAG LATITUDE 87° 6′, APRIL 21, 1906

Painted by Albert Operti, from photographs

Nearest the Pole
A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905–1906

By
R. E. PEARY, U. S. N.

With ninety-five photographs by theauthor, two maps and a frontispiecein colour by Albert Operti

New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1907
Copyright, 1907, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, April, 1907
All Rights Reserved
Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages
Including the Scandinavian
TO HER WHO HAS BEEN
MY CONSTANT AID AND INSPIRATION
AND HAS BORNE THE BRUNT
OF IT ALL
viiNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INCORPORATED A.D. 1888

INTRODUCTION

The Address of President Roosevelt on his presentationof the Hubbard Medal of the National GeographicSociety to Commander Robert E. Peary, at the annualbanquet of the Society, December 15, 1906.

I count myself fortunate in having been asked to bepresent this evening at such a gathering and on behalf ofsuch a society to

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