March 1, 1909 (Monday)
- Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, Ootah, Egingwah, Seegloo and Ookeah; and 18 other men set off from Ellesmere Island at 6:00 a.m. for their final push to the North Pole.
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“Yet nightly pitch my moving tent,
A day’s march nearer home.”
—James Montgomery (1771–1854)