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    Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (/ˈpɪəri/; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions...
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  • SS Robert E. Peary was a Liberty ship which gained fame during World War II for being built in a shorter time than any other such vessel. Named after...
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    USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE-5) is a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship in the United States Navy. She is the fourth Navy ship named for Arctic explorer...
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    1300) The area is named after Robert E. Peary, who first explored it during his expedition of 1891 to 1892. Originally, Peary Land was believed to be an...
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  • Peary has a sister facility, "The Point", located in Hertford, North Carolina. Camp Peary is named for Arctic explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary....
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    1866 – March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They...
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    such as Captain Robert Bartlett, Ernest Shackleton, Richard E. Byrd, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott, George W. DeLong, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson...
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    Cecilia Peary (née Diebitsch; May 22, 1863 – December 19, 1955) was an American author and arctic explorer. She was the wife of Robert Peary, who claimed...
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    It has been used as a motto for instance by Francis Bacon as well as Robert Peary. It still is popular in social, educational and military organisations...
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    Amundsen. Three prior expeditions – led by Frederick Cook (1908, land), Robert Peary (1909, land) and Richard E. Byrd (1926, aerial) – were once also accepted...
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    supposedly sighted by the explorer Robert Peary from the top of Cape Colgate in 1906. It is now believed that Peary fraudulently invented the island. Following...
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    Greenland to New York City with his father and others by the explorer Robert Peary. The six Inuit were studied by staff of the American Museum of Natural...
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    North Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a year later by Robert Peary, though both men's accounts have since been fiercely disputed; in December...
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    and the school mascot was selected as a polar bear in 1913 to honor Robert Peary, a Bowdoin alumnus who led the first successful expedition to the North...
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    29°50′W 704.7 km Robert Peary 1900 yes 700 m by 300 m by 30 m high Cape Morris Jesup 83°37′39″N, 32°39′52″W 708.6 km Robert Peary 1900 yes northernmost...
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    The Peary Channel (Danish: Peary-kanal) was a hypothetical sound or marine channel running from east to west separating Peary Land in northernmost Greenland...
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  • Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863–1955), American author and arctic explorer, wife of Robert Peary Robert Peary (1856–1920), American explorer Peary Chand Mitra...
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  • States Navy have been named Peary or Robert E. Peary, after Robert E. Peary (1856–1920), the Arctic explorer. USS Peary (DD-226) was a Clemson-class...
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    centuries, accompanied United States Navy Commander Robert Peary on his attempts to reach the North Pole Robert O'Hara Burke (1821–1861), Irish soldier and police...
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    nearly at the lunar north pole, it was named after the polar explorer Robert Peary. Peary is nearly circular, with an outward bulge along the northeast rim...
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    accomplished by its members, including: First to the North Pole (1909) – Robert E. Peary (honorary membership in 1912) & Matthew Henson First to the South Pole...
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    The Peary caribou (Rangifer arcticus pearyi) is a subspecies of caribou found in the High Arctic islands of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Canada...
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  • the participants of the 1908–1909 Expedition to the North Pole, led by Robert Peary. Authorized by Congress in 1944, the silver medals were presented by...
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    meteoritic iron for tools. The first foreigner to reach the meteorite was Robert Peary in 1894, with the assistance of Inuit guides. Large pieces are on display...
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    but one possibility is that he mistook a Fata Morgana for actual land. Robert Peary claimed to have seen, while on a 1906 Arctic expedition, a land mass...
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    recorded sighting of Kaffeklubben Island was made by the American explorer Robert Peary in 1900, who believed that Cape Morris Jesup on the mainland was the...
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    Nordenskiöld to cross Greenland from the west 1886: Failed attempt by Robert Peary to cross Greenland 1888–1889: First successful crossing of the Greenland...
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    Cape Columbia (section Peary)
    Arctic Ocean off Cape Columbia Map of Cape Columbia and the Lincoln Sea Robert Peary chose the Cape as the location for the northernmost depot of his final...
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    disrupted when, in 1909, the rival American explorers Frederick Cook and Robert Peary each claimed to have reached the North Pole. Amundsen then changed his...
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    The Peary Arctic Club was an American-based club with the goal of promoting the Arctic expeditions of Robert Peary (1856–1920). This association of influential...
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