But after the American RobertPeary claimed to have reached it in 1909, both men hastily altered their plans, instead they would aim for the last big prize: the South Pole.
Meanwhile, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, whose plan to reach the North Pole first had been thwarted by both Frederik Cook and RobertPeary, had secretly turned his sights on the South Pole.
A cape of northwest Greenland in northern Baffin Bay. It was used as an exploration base by Robert E. Peary, who discovered its famous iron meteorites.