Peary Channel (Greenland)

Peary Channel
Peary Channel
	Robert Peary's 1903 Northern Greenland map section showing the Peary Channel and the geographical features he named in the area.
Created by	Robert E. Peary in 1892
In-universe information
Type	Sound
Locations	Nordenskiöld Fjord (Lincoln Sea); Independence Fjord (Wandel Sea)

The Peary Channel (Danish: Peary-kanal) was a hypothetical sound or marine channel running from east to west separating Peary Land in northernmost Greenland from the mainland further south.^[2]

The assumed existence of this channel and other errors in Peary's maps reportedly caused the tragic loss of the leading team of the Denmark expedition to Greenland's Northeast Coast 1906–1908.^[3]

^ Robert Peary's 1900 explorations map "Polar Regions" published in 1903 in Robert E. Peary, Report of RE Peary, CE, USN, on Work Done in the Arctic in 1898–1902
^ Koch, L. (1925). "The Question of Peary Channel". Geographical Review. 15 (4): 643–649. doi:10.2307/208628. JSTOR 208628.
^ Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008 p. 85

[PolarR-1] Robert Peary's 1900 explorations map "Polar Regions" published in 1903 in Robert E. Peary, Report of RE Peary, CE, USN, on Work Done in the Arctic in 1898–1902

[2] Koch, L. (1925). "The Question of Peary Channel". Geographical Review. 15 (4): 643–649. doi:10.2307/208628. JSTOR 208628.

[3] Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008 p. 85

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