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   ocr: Meteorite - I that was carried about 500 kilometers (about 310 miles) by sledge. Icebound near Bushnan Island in Melville Bay in 1818, Captain John Ross of the British Royal Navy was the first European to make contact with Eskimos from the Cape York area. They taught him one of the techniques they used to survive the severe arctic conditions there. Lacking other sources of iron, the Eskimos had figured out how 512