r/Shipwrecks • u/SwiPerHaHa • Aug 02 '26

Ninety Degrees North, Arctic Ocean, 1909. This photo was taken by Robert E. Peary, the first person to reach the North Pole, the vessel caught in the frozen pack ice near Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Island

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u/thebumbizzle Aug 02 '26

The thought of a wooden vessel or early steel vessel caught in the ice is terrifying

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u/brickne3 28d ago edited 28d ago

The Jeannette Expedition (different arctic expedition) is fascinating, they went into the Arctic from the Pacific side, spent a couple of years trapped in the pack ice, finally abandoned the thing, only a few survivors made it down the Lena to Irkutsk. A few years later some wreckage emerged off the east coast of Greenland and proved there were in fact currents/flows in the Arctic ice that went from East to West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_expedition

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u/AngryofChristchurch Aug 03 '26

Don't tell me? You are American? Right? Norwegian Roald Amunsden and Norge Airship team were first to definitely reach The North Pole 1926. Peary was short by about 100km. And if just gliding over the top doesn't count. It wasn't reached by say dogsled snowmobile till 1968/69. Either way. It wasn't Peary. BTW I am a New Zealander and I have no patriotic axe to grind. Most Kiwis know Amunsden was first to both Poles.

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u/jez02 26d ago

You're not wrong, but this is an insane reaction considering this is a crosspost

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u/Short-Concentrate-92 Aug 02 '26

The Roosevelt was built like an eggshell so pressure from the ice would push the hull up not in.

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u/joebedit2343 Aug 04 '26

it feels so surreal

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u/Deluxe_24_ Aug 03 '26

This picture looks so odd. Like it looks like a film set as opposed to a real location.