Greely Expedition
Farthest North
This is an 1894 image of a book engraving depicting the farthest
north position by any member of the
Greely Expedition. The individuals shown would be Sgt. Brainard and
Lt. Lockwood.
The position would be Lat. 83 degrees 24 minutes North
May 15. 1882
The Cairn of Lockwood and Brainard as discovered by the Peary Expedition,
1909
sources:
image #1: unknown 1894 book
image #2: Borup, George, A Tenderfoot with Peary,
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911, p224
data source: Guttridge, Leonard F. Ghosts of Cape Sabine,
New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000, pp89, 337
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