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Mental Floss Presents: The Quest for the North Pole - Bonus Episode 2: Minik and the Meteorites

Bonus Episode 2: Minik and the Meteorites

Mental Floss Presents: The Quest for the North Pole

07/30/21 • 20 min

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Before Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole, he led several expeditions to northern Greenland. But they were more than just scouting trips. He brought back three legendary meteorites from the Arctic, which are still on display in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Peary also brought people—six Inughuit who had helped him retrieve the meteorites, including a young boy named Minik.

In this special bonus episode of The Quest for the North Pole, host Kat Long speaks with Kenn Harper, author of Minik: The New York Eskimo, about the boy’s experience with the museum, how he came to feel betrayed by those he trusted, and how his fate intertwines with the legacy of Arctic exploration.

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07/30/21 • 20 min

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Mental Floss Presents: The Quest for the North Pole - Bonus Episode 2: Minik and the Meteorites

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The Quest for the North Pole is a production of I Heart Radio and Mental Floss. As you pass through the main entrance of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, you meet a statue of Theodore Roosevelt and enter a hall crowded with tourists and dinosaur skeletons.

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You walk past a herd of taxi, der meat, elephants, Native American artifacts, and the New Gallery of Gems and Miner

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