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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 (383 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_Peary (973 words)

	Do Unto Others Project-Church of the Science of God
		Peary’s observations of the sun during a 30-hour period in and around his final camp, named Camp Jesup, showed that within the probable error of his navigation instruments (about five miles), the party had reached the Pole, as Peary, Henson, and the Eskimos all maintained for the rest of their lives.
		Peary covered the distance to the Pole in five marches averaging about 27 miles per march, at an average speed of about 2.5 miles an hour.In 1986 Will Steger covered virtually the same distance at the same speed and expressed the opinion that Peary’s claims were not unreasonable.
		Peary’s 40 dogs for the final dash were the pick of 133 that had started the trek and were well fed and rested in readiness for the final assault.
	www.dountoothers.org /peary32706.html (3604 words)

	Military District of Washington - HomePage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.mdw.army.mil /content/anmviewer.asp?a=128 (541 words)

	Admiral Robert E. Peary
		Peary would not hazard an opinion as to the size of the party to make the final effort or the length of time it would take.
		Peary found the ice was actually soft in some places, and he came across a number of lanes of open water, around which detours were necessary.
		Peary has at present formed no plans for lecturing or writing up his expedition, and no arrangements have yet been made by those who supported his dash toward the pole to receive him formally.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/ragtime/peary.html (1114 words)

	epic voyages: Robert Peary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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 Peary (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Peary was born on May 6, 1856, in Cresson, Pennsylvania and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the United States Navy 26 October 1881.
		Peary's account of a beeline journey to the Pole and back -- the only thing that might have allowed him to travel at such a speed -- is contradicted by Henson's account of tortured detours to avoid pressure ridges and open leads.
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	robert-peary.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (718 words)

	Peary, Robert Edwin - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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)

	Today in History: May 6
		Robert Peary, convinced that the North Pole could not be reached successfully from Russia, set his sights on Greenland as the launching ground of a northward dash to the pole.
		Peary developed a number of practices that led to his reaching the farthest point north, including the establishment of support bases and shelters, a backup supply line using a method of relay teams, and the construction of a ship made to withstand the Arctic ice.
		Nevertheless, Peary's achievement remains substantial in the development of Arctic exploration methods and in his contribution to the scientific record in the areas of hydrography, meteorology, geology, geography and mapping, botany, and zoology of the Arctic regions and ethnography of the Inuit peoples.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/may06.html (2075 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)

	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.
		Peary was so impressed with Henson skills and knowledge that he made him part of his first polar expedition team.
		Peary surmised that Ellesmere Island would be the best stepping-off point for his trek to the Pole, and not Greenland as had been previously believed.
	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 PEARY, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES
		Robert Edwin Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania, on May 6, 1856.
		Peary led four expeditions to northern Greenland between 1886 and 1900, proving that Greenland was an island, not a continent.
		The National Geographic Society again endorsed Peary's claims in 1989, as the navigational notes were determined to be from a previous expedtion.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/peary.html (495 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)

	Virtual Exploration Society - Matthew Henson: Arctic Explorer
		Peary, who was interested in becoming the first man to reach the North Pole, decided after the Nicaraguan trip to offer Henson a job as a messenger at the League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia with an eye to having Henson come along on future ventures.
		Decades after both Peary and Henson died, claims were made that they had gotten lost on their way to the Pole and missed it by a hundred miles.
		Peary took numerous sightings with his sextant to check his position and was as close to the Pole as his instrument would allow: about five miles.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /henson.htm (2936 words)

	North Pole Controversy, Part 1
		Although the laurels ultimately went to Peary, doubts still linger and, despite protestations of countless writers on the subject that they have had the final word, it is unlikely the debate will ever be definitively resolved.
		Soon, however, Peary supporters began raising questions about Cook's proof of reaching the pole--although Peary's "proof" was never any better--and doubts about Cook's veracity, particularly his claim of having reached the summit of Mt. McKinley in Alaska in 1906, began to creep in.
		Peary died in 1920 prompting widespread fears among his supporters that Cook would use Peary's demise as an opportunity to press his claim.
	members.tripod.com /PolarFlight/controversy1.htm (1010 words)

	Peary's Eagle Island
		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.
		All have come to the same conclusion: that the North Pole of the earth was first reached by mankind exactly as Robert E. Peary reported on his return from the arctic in autumn of 1909.
	www.pearyeagleisland.org /aboutisland.htm (991 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 (715 words)

	Robert Edwin Peary - People of Pennsylvania
		Robert graduated from Portland High School and earned a degree in Civil Engineering from Bowdoin College as a member of the class of 1877.
		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.
	www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/pa_rep.htm (457 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)

	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)

	Peary at the North Pole, 1909
		Robert Peary, a Commander in the U.S. Navy, made his first attempt to reach the Pole in 1893.
		On September 5, 1909 Peary emerged from the Arctic wilderness and announced to the world that he had reached the North Pole on April 6.
		An Act of Congress in 1911 recognized Peary's claim, but this was a political accolade rather than an endorsement by the scientific community that remained divided in its judgement.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /vopeary.htm (278 words)

	Robert Peary(Bowdoin, Arctic Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Robert E. Peary was born May 6, 1856 in Cresson, Pennsylvania.
		In the following years Peary relived the adventure in his writings and speeches, defending himself against his critics, including Frederick Cook, whose competing claim to have reached the Pole in 1908 was announced just days before Peary returned in 1909.
		Peary retired from the Navy in 1911 and he lived his last years with Josephine and their two children in Washington, D.C., summering on his beloved Eagle Island on the Maine coast.
	academic.bowdoin.edu /arcticmuseum/biographies/html/peary.shtml (723 words)

	Explorers of Canada, Part XXXI: Robert E. Peary
		Peary was impressed with Henson and decided that he would go along with him to the North.
		On leave from the Navy, Peary, in 1886, went to Greenland where he reached its most northern point and declared that the Pole was not part of Greenland but lay farther north.
		In 1909, Peary and his crew sailed on the USS Roosevelt to Ellesmere Island, where on March 1st, with 22 other men, Peary and Henson went due North to reach the Pole.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/94044 (457 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)

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