Robert Peary, "The North Pole" — Map
A map for the Ukrainian edition of Robert E. Peary's The North Pole — a record of the 1909 expedition that reached the planet's northernmost point after two earlier failed attempts. Published alongside Roald Amundsen's The South Pole, the book marks the culmination of centuries of effort to reach the ends of the Earth.
A map for Robert Peary’s “The North Pole,” published in Ukrainian by Bearded Tamarin, translated by Olha Smolnytska. The map charts the route of the expedition led by the American explorer and U.S. Navy officer that, in the spring of 1909, set out to reach the northernmost point of Earth, tracing the path from the Arctic coast to the pole and marking the supply depots laid down along the way.
The map uses the Peirce quincuncial projection, developed by Charles Sanders Peirce in 1879 — a historically fitting choice, since the projection already existed in Peary’s day. This conformal projection transforms the sphere onto an unfolded square, with the distinctive property of tiling the plane seamlessly. It is well suited to polar work: the North Pole sits at the centre, with quarters of the South Pole in the corners, forming the quincunx pattern of the five-spot on a die.
This is the first complete edition of Peary’s account in Ukrainian.
Published 2025 · 320 pages · 13.5 × 21 cm · Ukrainian · ISBN 978-617-95406-2-2
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