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   ocr: Meteorite I iron through trade, did the Eskimos reveal the secret of Ahnighito's location. Admiral Robert E. Peary, who was led to the site in 1894, found the largest mass almost completely buried, laying some twenty- seven meters eighty-one feet) above high water and one hundred meters (three hundred feet) from the shore. When he returned, in 1895, he had not yet realized the size of Ahnighito. After 712