The Eagle Island Journal is published twice a year, by The Friends of Peary's Eagle Island. Journals since Fall 2005 are in PDF format requring Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free download. Use your back arrow to return to this site.

Volume XIII, Number 1, Spring 2008. Articles:President Harry Rich reports on the seawall problem. Cdr. Ed Stafford describes the christening of USNS Robert E. Peary at San Diego. THis is the fifth USN ship to named for the Admiral.

Volume XII, Number 2, Fall 2007. Articles: The seawall surrounding the Admiral's summer home needs major repairs; excerpts from Adm. Peary's book "Northward over the Great Ice" in which he describes the Eskimos living north of Cape York; summer improvements on the Island.

Volume XII, Number 1, Spring 2007. Remembering Ray Harrison. Appeal for volunteers. Special attachment: Biography of Adm. Peary's wife, Josephine, written by Cdr. Edward Peary Stafford, the Admiral's grandson. Click Here for this.

Volume XI, Number 2, Fall 2006. Chuck Hutington's summary of seven years' bird research on the Island. Two 1916 newspaper clippngs about Adm. Peary's career in military aviation. A very succesful year of volunteer accomplishment.

Volume XI, Number 1, Spring 2006. Features information about the summer programs, news about the just released documentary film, "Admiral Robert E. Peary: The Man and His Island", and a recently discovered, quaint 1910 article about Peary's "...attainment of the Pole". 

Volume X, Number 2, Fall 2005. This is a special issue celebrating the "Barclay Ultimate North" expedition to the North Pole in March/April 2005. A team of  five traveling with sled dogs, repeated Peary's 1909 adventure and proved that it could be done in the time Peary claimed.

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• Click HERE to read the story written just for us by Tom Avery, the leader.

Volume X, Number 1 Spring 2005 Articles: President's Message, Annual Meeting-August 11, Docent Program, Trail Day-July 9, Documentary Film Update, Eagle Island Adventure Tours, and the S.S.Roosevelt.

Volume IX, Number 2 Fall 2004. Articles: Summer 2004, (Manager's report); Work Days report; Greenland Revisited, by Capt. Donald L. Taub; What We Need (President's Report); Warbler Downpour, by Chuck Huntington; Report on the Documentary film, by John Davis.

Volume IX, Number 1. Spring 2004. Articles: President's Report: History; Documentary Film; Snow Babies; Eagle Island Birds; Call for Volunteers; New Docent Program; Adventure Tour to Eagle Island; Thank You, Dolphin Marina.

Volume VIII, Number 2, Fall 2003. Articles: Work Days, Summer 2003; Letter from Capt. Donald Taub, USCG; Oliver Brown Retires; Peary Stafford and BNAS Crew Repair West Porch Ceiling; President's Message.

Volume VIII, Number 1 Spring 2003. Articles: Ed Stafford's Tours; Bird Study Progress Report; Dining Out with Josephine Peary; President's Message (new pier, etc.); Trail Work Day; The Gardens of Eagle Island.

Volume VII, Number 2, Fall 2002. Articles: Birds on Eagle Island 2002; Women on Eagle Island; "Eagle Island has a New Set of Clothes"; Message from the Peary Family; Message from the Park Manager; Admiral Peary's Navigation to the North Pole.

Volume VII, Number 1, Spring 2002. Articles: President's Message, Ed Stafford's Tours, A Geography Lesson (Harry Rich), Fire Protection Update, Peary Reached the Pole (Douglas R. Davies)

Volume VI, Number 2, Fall 2001. Articles: President's Message, Did Peary Really Make it to the North Pole?, The "Roosevelt" (painting) Comes Home, Ahnighito (meteorite) revisited, Marine Intertidal Studies, Bird Survey; Numbers Begin to Tell a Story.