An expedition spent years looking for an Arctic island that didn't exist
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76FY1)
In 1913 a party set out to map Crocker Land, "a huge island supposedly sighted by the explorer Robert Peary from the top of Cape Colgate in 1906." Peary had named it after San Francisco banker George Crocker, one of his backers. - Read the rest
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