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The site of Fort Magnesia, Payer Harbour, Pirn Island, NWT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

W. Barr  and
W. Blake Jr
W. Barr
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CanadaS7N OWO
W. Blake Jr
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, CanadaK1A OE8
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Abstract

The site of Fort Magnesia, the base hut of a three-man expedition to Payer Harbour, Pirn Island, in the Canadian Arctic, has recently been rediscovered by a party from the Geological Survey of Canada. Erected by Robert Stein's party in summer 1899, and used by them for two years, the hut was almost certainly moved to another site by Robert E. Peary for his over-wintering in 1901–02. Only fragments of the hut now remain. Five graves, probably of Peary's Eskimo helpers, are located nearby.

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Polar Record , Volume 26 , Issue 156 , January 1990 , pp. 39 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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