The Cook-Peary Files: September 4, 1909: How Cook’s visit to Lerwick was reported in the local papers
July 4, 2024
This is the latest in a series of posts that publish for the first time significant documents related to the Polar Controversy.
This is how I portrayed Dr. Cook’s stop at Lerwick in the Shetland Islands to announce his claim to have attained the North Pole on September 1, 1909 in my book, Cook & [...]