{{Short description|Phantom island in the Arctic Ocean}} {{Infobox fictional location | name = Bradley Land | image = Bradley Land.jpg | caption = Alleged location of Bradley Land, sighted by Frederick Cook, and Crocker Land, sighted by Robert Peary. | series = | creator = First reported by Frederick Cook | type = Large phantom island | locations = Arctic Ocean }} thumb|Photo of Cook's 1909 expedition, with alleged Bradley Land in background '''Bradley Land''' was the name Frederick Cook gave to a mass of land which he claimed to have seen between ({{coord|84|20|N|102|0|W|}}) and ({{coord|85|11|N|102|0|W|}}) during a 1909 expedition. He described it as two masses of land with a break, a strait, or an indentation between.<ref>{{cite book |title=The North Pole and Bradley Land |last=Balch |first=Edwin Swift |year=1913 |publisher=Campion and Company |location=Philadelphia |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Mc6fAAAAMAAJ/page/n55 54] |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Mc6fAAAAMAAJ }}</ref> The land was named for John R. Bradley, who had sponsored Cook's expedition.
Cook published two photographs of the land and described it thus: "The lower coast resembled Heiberg Island, with mountains and high valleys. The upper coast I estimated as being about one thousand feet high, flat, and covered with a thin sheet ice."<ref>{{cite book |title=My Attainment of the Pole: Being the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907–1909 |last=Cook |first=Frederick A. |year=1911 |publisher=The Polar Publishing Co |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924029882580/page/n303 246] |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029882580 }}</ref>
It is now known there is no land at that location and Cook's observations were based on either a misidentification of sea ice or an outright fabrication. Cook's Inuit companions reported that the photographs were actually taken near the coast of Axel Heiberg Island.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://humbug.polarhist.com/bland.html |title=Fredrick A. Cook: From Hero to Humbug |access-date=2009-02-23 |last=Bryce |first=Robert M. |date=2008 }}</ref>
==See also== * Crocker Land * Sannikov Land
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Category:Phantom islands of the Arctic Ocean Category:Exploration of the Arctic