Northward: Peary’s 1908-09 Expedition

Anemometer

  • 06-20-1909 – Afternoon
  • Donald B. MacMillan
  • Fort Conger, Ellesmere Island, CAN

Great weather now, thermometer at +36°. Koodlookto has rigged up an anemometer which is buzzing merrily in the wind, also a huge tripod of iron pipes from which is suspended an old copper propeller which rings out like a bell when he pounds it with a pestle.

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