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	Robert Peary - MSN Encarta
		Robert Edwin Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania, and educated at Bowdoin College.
		Peary proved Greenland was an island rather than a continent and that the Greenland ice cap extended no farther north than latitude 82° north; he also contributed to scientific knowledge of Inuit ethnology and of glacial formation.
		On July 17, 1908, Peary led another expedition to the North Pole, and on April 6, 1909, he and a small party consisting of his assistant Matthew A. Henson and four Inuit either reached the Pole or came very close to it.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576666/Robert_Peary.html (381 words)

	Robert Peary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peary, born in Pittsburgh area town of Cresson, Pennsylvania, was a graduate of Bowdoin College, Maine, and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the United States Navy October 26, 1881.
		Peary died in Washington D.C., and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
		Peary reaches the North Pole, crippled and frost-bitten, on the sled of Matthew A. Henson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Edwin_Peary (973 words)

	Polar Controversy, Cook & Peary, Wally Herbert
		Peary was an officer of the United States Navy and charged with the specific duty in which he was engaged.
		Peary entered the Navy in 1881 and has served almost 30 years, he is at present a civil engineer with the rank of captain.
		President Darwin wrote Peary on December 5, 1910, in his official capacity as president of the society, acknowledging the receipt of the documents and advising him of the results of the examination of same.
	www.pearyhenson.org /polarcontroversy/page3a.htm (2010 words)

	Arlington National Cemetery:: Historical Information
		Peary, who was born on May 6, 1856, in Cresson, Pa., was a member of the U.S. Navy Civil Engineering Corps.
		Peary, Henson and four Eskimo companions comprised one team and together they inched their way northward until, on April 6, they stood where no one had ever stood before -- the North Pole.
		Robert E. Peary died on Feb. 20, 1920, in Washington, D.C., and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Feb. 23.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.org /text/robert_edwin_peary_text.html (533 words)

	Peary
		Robert Edwin Peary, born at Cresson, Penn., 6 May 1856, was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Navy 26 October 1881.
		Peary was moored at Cavite, P.I., when news of the Pearl Harbor raid reached her and was caught in the raid on the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, two days later.
		Peary, tied up at a small pier, took one bomb forward which riddled the superstructure and stack and killed 8 of her crew.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p4/peary.htm (663 words)

	Peary, Robert Edwin - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Important ethnological and meteorological observations were recorded, a long sled journey to the northeast coast of Greenland was made, Peary Land was explored, and the insularity and approximate northerly extension of Greenland were confirmed.
		Peary's wife, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, 1863-1955, accompanied him on several of his expeditions and gave birth in the arctic to Peary's daughter, Marie Ahnighito Peary.
		Following in Peary's FOOTSTEPS ; A group of modern-day explorers recreates the 1909 journey of Maine's Robert Peary, reaching the North Pole in 37 days.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-peary-r1o.html (505 words)

	epic voyages: Robert Peary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Robert Peary was an American explorer, was one of the greatest Arctic travellers of all time.
		Peary was born on May 6, 1856 in Cresson, Pennsylvania.
		In 1884 Peary began his career of exploration as chief assistant on an expedition to Nicaragua to survey a route for the planned alternative to the Panama Canal.
	library.thinkquest.org /C004237/english/nond/peary.html (304 words)

	Robert Edwin Peary - People of Pennsylvania
		obert Peary is best known for his exploration of the Arctic and had generally been credited with being the first man to have reached the North Pole in 1909, although this assertion was cast into doubt by Frederick A. Cook who claimed to have reached the Pole in 1908.
		Peary Land, a region in northern Greenland along the Arctic Ocean, between Victoria Fjord and the Greenland Sea is named for Robert Peary.
		Admiral Peary explored this region in 1892, 1895 and 1900.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/pa_rep.htm (457 words)

	Robert Edwin Peary, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
		Then along came Robert E. Peary, a civil engineer with a burning desire to secure a place in the history of exploration by being the first man to stand where there is no east or west.
		We are introduced to a driven, self-centered Robert Peary, portrayed by Henry Czerny.
		Indeed, Peary's involvement with an Inuit woman is told very pointedly when the explorer's manor born wife, played by Bronwen Booth, shows up at a camp and finds him with the heavily pregnant woman.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /roberted.htm (1731 words)

	About Peary
		Peary was driven by a need to excel, to achieve more than the average man. At the age of 24, he wrote his mother that, "I don't want to live and die without accomplishing anything or without being known beyond a narrow circle of friends".
		Robert E Peary, USN (holding the relative rank of lieutenant) was assigned to the Bureau of Yards and Docks in Washington, DC.
		In 1893, Peary, his wife who was pregnant with their first child, and the men of the expedition again went north, this time to explore land north of Greenland and reach the North Pole if possible.
	www.pearyeagleisland.org /aboutpeary.htm (3963 words)

	Robert Peary - Arctic Explorers - All Things Arctic
		Peary chose Henson to accompany him on 7 expeditions to the Arctic because of Henson's strength, resource-fulness, and his skills as a mechanic, navigator and carpenter.
		Robert Edwin Peary was an American explorer and Naval officer who led the first expedition to the North Pole.
		Peary was so impressed with Henson skills and knowledge that he made him part of his first polar expedition team.
	www.allthingsarctic.com /exploration/peary.aspx (685 words)

	The American Experience \| Alone on the Ice \| Robert Peary
		Exploring the Greenland ice cap in 1886, Robert Peary, on leave from his duties with the U.S. Navy, came to the conclusion that the North Pole lay beyond, and was not part of, Greenland.
		Peary had further decided that he would be the first man to reach the North Pole, the top of the world.
		Robert Peary was made prematurely old by his total of 12 years in the Arctic and his battle to disprove Cook's claims.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ice/sfeature/peary.html (684 words)

	Robert Edwin Peary Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The American explorer Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) is famous for his discovery of the North Pole; he was one of the last and greatest of the dog team-and-sledge polar explorers.
		Robert Peary was born in Cresson, Pa., on May 6, 1856, but he lived in Maine after the death of his father in 1859.
		In succeeding years, however, Peary's claims were validated and recognized by Congress and the major geographic societies of the world, whereas Cook's claims, always dubious, did not receive official sanction and suffered from the exposure of additional Cook frauds.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-edwin-peary (723 words)

	Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
		Robert Peary, who led many expeditions to the Pole and Greenland, chose Matthew Henson to be his assistant.
		Robert Peary retired from the Navy in 1911 with the rank of rear admiral.
		Robert Peary died on February 20, 1920 in Washington D.C. In 1913 President Taft made Henson clerk in the New York Customs House which he held until 1936.
	library.thinkquest.org /4034/pearyhenson.html (488 words)

	Matthew Alexander Henson, Explorer
		When Peary realized what had happened, he was so angry that he refused to speak to Henson on the return trip and thereafter maintained a distant relationship more common between fls and whites of that era.
		Peary is buried under a globe-shaped monument on the crest of an Arlington hill that commands a sweeping view of Washington, DC.
		Peary was buried at Arlington in 1920 and a monument to him was erected at his grave.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /mhenson.htm (3946 words)

	Peary's Eagle Island
		Eagle Island in Casco Bay, Maine, was the well loved home of my father, Admiral Robert Edwin Peary the first and only man to lead a party of fellow men to the North Pole without the use of mechanical or electrical devices.
		Robert Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania on May 6, 1856.
		In Peary's eyes the rocky bluff was the prow of a great ship heading northeasterly, and he placedhis house as the pilot house of a ship would have been located.
	pearyeagleisland.org /aboutisland.htm (991 words)

	Robert Edwin Peary
		Robert Edwin Peary (1855-1920), travelling by dog sled and accompanied by Matthew Henson and four Inuit, claimed to have reached the North Pole - a position in the middle of the Arctic Ocean - on April 6, 1909.
		Among other things, they compared Peary's ocean-depth soundings with current information, analysed patterns of ice drift, and applied modern methods of photogrammetry (a process of making measurements from photographs) to his expedition photographs.
		Peary's last assault on the Pole began with a force of 89 people (including 69 Inuit) and 246 dogs, and it was not without hardship.
	www.athropolis.com /arctic-facts/fact-peary.htm (338 words)

	Robert Edwin Peary Biography \| scit_061_package.xml
		Robert Edwin Peary spent a good portion of his life in the Arctic regions of the world.
		Peary and Maigaard spent more than three weeks hiking across the wilderness in miserably cold and windy conditions before they had to turn back just 125 miles (201 km) into their journey for lack of adequate supplies.
		Peary made his final attempt to reach the pole during an expedition that began on July 6, 1908.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-edwin-peary-scit-061 (830 words)

	Peary, Robert Edwin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He became interested in arctic exploration and made a trip to the interior of Greenland in 1886; later (1891–92), having secured a leave of absence from the navy, he led an expedition to Greenland for scientific study and exploration.
		He announced that he had achieved his goal, but on his return he learned of the prior claim of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who had been ship’s surgeon on Peary’s expedition of 1891–92.
		Peary’s wife, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, 1863–1955, accompanied him on several of his expeditions and gave birth in the arctic to Peary’s daughter, Marie Ahnighito Peary.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pe/Peary-Ro.html (435 words)

	MavicaNET - Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Robert Edwin Peary, who has “made good” and “nailed the Stars and Stripes” to the North Pole, is a Pennsylvanian, born in Cresson, Pa., May 6, 1856.
		Born in Pennsylvania, Robert Edwin Peary spent his childhood in Cape Elizabeth and Portland, Maine where his mother brought him after the death of his father.
		Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 - Feb. 20, 1920) was an American explorer and Naval officer who led the first expedition to the North Pole.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/fin/35313.html (650 words)

	USS Robert E Peary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Robert E. Peary (DE-132) was laid down 30 June 1942 by the Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Tex.; launched 3 January 1943, sponsored by Mrs.
		Early in 1944, Robert E. Peary crossed the Atlantic with a "hunter-killer" group, and upon returning to the United States shifted to the northern sealanes.
		Ordered to the Pacific Fleet on completion of her last Atlantic run on 7 June 1945, Robert E. Peary underwent overhaul and was en route to t.he Pacific when the war with Japan ended.
	www.navyhistory.com /DE/robertepeary.html (294 words)

	Date line, Time Line, Chronology of Henson's life
		Robert Edwin Peary born to Charles and Mary Peary in Washington township, Pennsylvania.
		Peary, who arrived 45 minutes later with the rest of the polar party, claimed the North Pole in the name of the President of the United States.
		Peary's claim to the North Pole was recognized by the National Geographic Society.
	www.matthewhenson.com /chronology.htm (1976 words)

	North Pole Explorers - Activity 4
		Robert Edwin Peary, who was born on May 6, 1856, in Cresson, Pa., was a member of the U.S. Navy Civil Engineering Corps.
		Peary began his Arctic career in 1885 as he began to plan an expedition that would ascend the Greenland Ice Cap.
		Peary's dream was to be the first person to reach the North Pole and he wanted Henson with him.
	www.teachersnetwork.org /dcs/winterweb/activity4rdng.htm (829 words)

	Robert Edwin Peary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Robert Edwin Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania, on May 6, 1856 and grew up in Maine.
		Peary led many expeditions in Nicaragua, Greenland, and Arctic, often accompagnied by his wife, Josephine Diebitsch Peary.
		Then, leaving Peary, Scrooge receives a telegram from the Tsar of Russia, telling that the Tsar accept the audience he asked for a long time ago, and quickly runs to Russia, passing by North Pole just before Peary reached it.
	goofy313g.free.fr /calisota_online/exist/peary.html (295 words)

	Frederick A. Cook: from Hero to Humbug
		Peary, Robert E., The North Pole, New York: Frederick A. Stokes.
		An account by one of Peary’s paying passengers on his last expedition, who stayed the winter of 1908-09 in Dr. Cook’s box house and witnessed his return from his northern journey in the spring of 1909.
		This groundbreaking biography of Peary, the first to be based on his extensive personal papers, is ambiguous in its outlook.
	home.earthlink.net /~cookpeary/anobib.html (2347 words)

	Robert E. Peary Biography (Explorer) — FactMonster.com
		Robert Edwin Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson and four Inuit men were the first to reach the North Pole on 6 April 1909.
		An officer in the United States Navy, it was Commander Peary's eighth attempt to reach the pole in two decades of exploring arctic regions.
		Robert E. Peary and the Rush to the North Pole (Cultural & Geographical Exploration Series/Chronicles from National Geographic) (Fred L. Israel and Arthur Meier Schlesinger)
	www.factmonster.com /biography/var/robertepeary.html (330 words)

	PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN (1... - Online Information article about PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN (1... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ross in 1818, and on his return in 1895 he brought the two smaller ones with him.
		In 1908 Peary started in the " Roosevelt " on the journey which was to bring him his final success.
		Nothing had been heard of him since March of that year, and it was supposed that he had perished.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PEARY_ROBERT_EDWIN_1856_.html (1447 words)

	Robert Edwin Peary Collection
		Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), son of Charles N. and Mary Wiley Peary, was born on May 6, 1856 at Cresson, Pennsylvania.
		He was President of the International Geographical Congress in 1904, received the Legion of Honor from France in 1913, and served as an Overseer of the College from 1917 until his death on February 20, 1920.
		Admiral Peary married Josephine, daughter of Herman H. and Madalena Schmid Diebitsch, on August 11, 1888.
	library.bowdoin.edu /arch/mss/repg.shtml (281 words)

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