Cape York meteorite

Cape York, or Innaanganeq, is one of Earth’s largest known iron meteorites, represented by at least eight major recovered masses from northern Greenland with a combined weight of about 58 tonnes. Long known to the Inughuit as the Great Irons, its metal was cold-forged into tools and harpoons and entered far-reaching Arctic trade networks before European contact. Inuit tradition associated its great masses with figures hurled from heaven. European knowledge began in 1818, and Robert E. Peary removed the largest pieces in the 1890s for the American Museum of Natural History. Its history joins major scientific importance with Indigenous use, exploration, and exploitation.