ARCTIC DISPUTE
RIVALRY OF DR. COOK & PEARY Dr. Frederick Cook. one-time Arctic explorer, who died recently, came into prominence in September, 1909. through announcement that he had discovered the North Pole, only to be shorn later of all honours that had been heaped upon him because of his claim to that achievement. Five days after Cook announced that he had discovered the Pole a similar announcement was made by the late Admiral Robert E. Peary, the claims of the rivals precipitating one of the most spectacular and widespread controversies in the long search for the top of the earth, says the Christian Science Monitor. Admiral Peary's data was accepted by the National Geographical Society, and he was thereafter accepted as the discoverer of the North Pole.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21223, 20 September 1940, Page 2
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126ARCTIC DISPUTE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21223, 20 September 1940, Page 2
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