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Polar Hunt Expands as Three Leaders Disappear North
Arctic explorers Peary Sverdrup and Wellman pursue the pole with new schemes. Sverdrup aims to circumnavigate Greenland in the Fram, Peary plans to push supplies with Eskimos toward the northwest coast, and Wellman contemplates another dash to the pole aboard the Windward. A French aeronaut M Souvigny prepares a long lasting balloon to reach the pole.
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Andree
Northland
Peary
Sverdrup
Wellman
Harmsworth
London
Fram
Walter Wellman
Greenland
Atlantic
Nansen
Christiania
Tekima
Cape Farewell
Sverdrop
Disco Bay
Smith Sound
Hope
St. John’s
M. Souvigny
North
Souvigny
Aeronaut
Howard Spence Sinclair