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<text id=89TT3351>
<title>
Dec. 25, 1989: Peary On Top
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Dec. 25, 1989 Cruise Control:Tom Cruise
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
SCIENCE, Page 73
Peary on Top
</hdr><body>
<p>He did, after all, go to the North Pole
</p>
<p> In 1909, two years before Roald Amundsen reached the South
Pole, Admiral Robert E. Peary went in the opposite direction to
the top of the world -- or so he said. Skeptics have long
challenged his claim, contending that he never got closer to the
pole than 89 km (55 miles) away.
</p>
<p> Last week the National Geographic Society revealed the
results of a yearlong study of the expedition's records. The
Navigation Foundation reviewed celestial positions and
ocean-depth soundings marked in the logs, and even examined the
shadows in photographs to calculate the angle of the sun and
help fix the locations in the pictures. The conclusion: Peary
made it to within 8 km (5 miles) of the pole, close enough to
confirm his place in history.
</p>
</body></article>
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