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ID: 174849
Title: Voices of Famous Polar Explorers
Author: Frederick Albert Cook, Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. , sirernest Henry Shackleton
Narrator: Frederick Albert Cook, Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. , sirernest Henry Shackleton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 00:16:00
Language: English
Release date: 01-09-16
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio
Genres: Non-Fiction, Lectures
Summary:
Frederick Albert Cook(June 10, 1865- August 5, 1940) was anAmericanexplorerandphysician, noted for his claims of achieving the first summit of Mount McKinley in September 1906, and having reached theNorth Poleon April 21, 1908, which would have been a year beforeRobert Peary.Both claims have been largely discredited. Later, Dr. Cook was a founding member of the Arctic Club andthe Explorers Club. Robert Edwin Peary, Sr.(May 6, 1856 - February 20, 1920) was anAmericanexplorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6, 1909, to reach thegeographic North Pole. Peary's claim was widely accepted for most of the 20th century, rather than the competing claim byFrederick Cookwho said he got there a year earlier. More recently, historians generally believe Cook did not reach the pole, and there are grave doubts that Peary did, though he may have been as close as 5 miles. SirErnest Henry Shackleton,(February 1874 - 5 January 1922) was anAnglo-Irishpolar explorerand one of the principal figures of the period known as theHeroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. In January 1909, as leader of theNimrod Expedition,he and three companions made a southern march which established a record-farthest Southlatitude at 8823?S, some 97geographical milesfrom theSouth Pole, the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. For this achievement, Shackleton was knighted byKing Edward VIIon his return home.
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