The Crocker Land Diaries: mythmaking, mirage and murder in the Far North
December 18, 2025
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In 1907, Robert E. Peary first claimed that when he stood on the heights of Axel Heiberg Island in June 1906, he sighted a distant land to the northwest.
Peary named it “Crocker Land,” after the banker George [...]