What is Crocker Land?
[[Image:Bradley Land.jpg|thumb|400px|Map showing the locations of '''Crocker Land''' sighted by [[Robert Peary]] and [[Bradley Land]] sighted by [[Frederick Cook]]]] '''Crocker Land''' is the name for a supposed eighth [[continent]] in the [[Arctic Ocean]]. In the year 1906, [[Robert Peary]] thought he had seen a landmass, which he named after George Crocker, a member of Peary Arctic Club. He thought that the land was about 130 miles (210&nbsp;km) north of [[Ellesmere Island]], at 83 degrees north and 100 degrees west. In 1913, the Crocker Land expedition started, to find Crocker Land. This expedition turned out to be a failure. The captain of the first ship became drunk and ran aground on the rocks. Later an [[Inuit]] guide was deliberately shot and killed by one of the expedition members under suspicious circumstances. The expedition eventually became stranded and was not rescued until four years later.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.spurlock.uiuc.edu/collections/browse/crockerland/crockerland_txt.html |title=Spurlock Museum |access-date=2011-12-17 |archive-date=2008-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827222607/http://www.spurlock.uiuc.edu/collections/browse/crockerland/crockerland_txt.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[MacGregor Arctic Expedition]] in 1937–1938 also took aerial photographs. These show that there is no land at that location. Despite this, some [[pseudo-scientific]] organizations still try to present a case for its possible existence.<ref>[http://www.ourhollowearth.com/ExpeditionUpdate.htm Our Hollow Earth]</ref> The expedition did not find Crocker Land. Later, [[satellite (artificial)|satellite]] images showed that the continent did not exist, and could not be found. Today, it is believed that what Peary saw, was a [[fata morgana]] mirage.<ref>[http://www.sandlotscience.com/Mirage/mirage1.htm Sandlot Science]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Phantom islands]] [[en:Crocker Land]]