Members,
What accounts for the seeming super-fast progress of Peary as he reached
the North Pole was the flattening and inward curvature of the Earth in that
area; it makes for exaggerated, lateral progress.
I don't see why the actual North Pole can't sit on the rim of the opening.
Celestial navegation might prove this to be so. The next time I go to the
Pole, I'll check it out.
From the book The Hollow Earth:
" There is one factor in Peary's dash to the Pole that casts suspicion on
his claim to have reached it. This was the remarkable speed at which he
claimed to travel, or would have had to travel to reach the North Pole and
return during the time he did. When he neared the 88th parallel north
latitude, he decided to attempt a final dash to the Pole in five days. He
made 25 miles the first day; 20 miles on the second day; 20 miles on the
third day; 25 miles on the fourth; and 40 miles on the fifth. His five-day
average was 26 miles a day. Can a man walk that fast under the incredibly
difficult conditions of the North Pole area, supposedly an ice-terrain
described by the men in the atomic submarine "Skate" as fantastically
jumbled and jagged? And yet, further south, with presumably better
conditions of travel, he was able to average only 20 miles a day.
From these facts we must conclude that neither Cook nor Peary reached the
true North Pole, since, according to the theories presented in this book, it
does not exist. What Cook and Peary reached was probably the magnetic rim of
the polar opening or depression, where the compass points straight down, but
not the Pole itself, which lies in the center of this opening. "