Crocker Land Expedition

Expedition members. From left to right: Harrison J. Hunt, Maurice C. Tanquary, W. Elmer Ekblaw, Donald B. MacMillan, Fitzhugh Green, and J. L. Allen.
Alleged locations of Crocker Land, sighted by Robert Peary, and Bradley Land, sighted by Frederick Cook.

The Crocker Land Expedition took place in 1913. Its purpose was to investigate the existence of Crocker Land, a huge island supposedly sighted by the explorer Robert Peary from the top of Cape Colgate in 1906. It is now believed that Peary fraudulently invented the island.[1]

  1. ^ David Welky (2016). A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-25442-6.