Word: northernmosts
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Dates: during 1897-1897
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Lieutenant Peary began his lecture by describing the position of Greenland, the earliest known Arctic land, which was first supposed to from a great Arctic continent, but is now known to be an island. It is by passing from the northernmost point of this island through the open sea that Lieutenant Peary thinks the North Pole will be reached. The old supposition that a volcano or deep hole would be found at the Pole is now discarded, and explorers expect to find there either land or an open ocean. The pole is now only 260 miles from the farthest northern...