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Photograph by Charles Martin 



PEARY, STEFANSSON, AND GREELY, A TRIUMVIRATE IN POLAR EXPLORATION 



ACHIEVEMENT 



This photograph, made at the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic 

 Society in January, 1919, was the last taken of Rear-Admiral Peary, discoverer of the North 

 Pole, who stands at the left. In the center is Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who had just been 

 awarded The Society's Hubbard Gold Medal for his work in adding 100,000 square miles to 

 the mapped Polar regions of the Western Hemisphere. At the right is Major-General A. W. 

 Greely, leader of the Greely International Polar Expedition of i88i-'84. 



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