Peary Expedition to Greenland (1897)

Dates

• Existence: 1897 - 1897

Summary

Robert E. Peary's final attempt to transport the Ahnighito meteorite, also known as The Tent, to New York. With a "one-hundred-ton and two thirty-ton jacks and ample supplies of railroad iron and great timbers," Peary was determined to win (Hovey). The meteorite was brought to the Brooklyn Navy Yard aboard the S.S. Hope in the autumn of 1897.

REFERENCES

Hovey, Edmund Otis. "The Cape York Meteorites." The American Museum Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, January 1905.

Reeds, Chester A., Ph.D. "Catalogue of the Meteorites in the American Museum of Natural History as of October 1, 1936." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 73, Art. 6, pages 517-672, July 26, 1937.

Topics

• AMNH Expeditions