Bradley Land

Photograph from 1909 with the alleged Bradley country in the background

Map with Bradley-Land and the phantom island Crocker-Land sighted by Robert Peary (click on the picture for a larger view)

Bradley Land is the name of a phantom island in the Arctic Ocean . The polar explorer Frederick Cook stated that on his North Pole expedition in 1909, north of Greenland, between 84 ° 20 ′  N , 102 ° 0 ′  W and 85 ° 11 ′  N , 102 ° 0 ′  W, he had sighted two larger land masses, which may have connected be. He named it after his sponsor John R. Bradley.

Cook posted two photos of Bradley Land. Today it is known that no country exists at the specified position. It is possible that it could be confused with the Axel-Heiberg-Insel , which implies a considerable navigational error , or that the ice has been misinterpreted. Two Inuit who accompanied Cook later stated that the photographs in question were taken near Axel Heiberg Island.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edwin Swift Balch: The North Pole and Bradley Land . Campion and Company, Philadelphia 1913, p. 54.
2. ^ Robert M. Bryce: Fredrick A. Cook: From Hero to Humbug . 2008. Retrieved August 6, 2009.