Robert Edwin Peary


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Noun1.Robert Edwin Peary - United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)Robert Edwin Peary - United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
Peary, Robert E. Peary, Robert Peary
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The book begins with Bartlett's departure from New York in July 1908 as captain of the SS Roosevelt, bound for northern Ellesmere Island as part of Robert Edwin Peary's latest attempt to reach the North Pole.
Unchained Man: The Arctic Life and Times of Captain Robert Bartlett
(Americans Robert Edwin Peary and Matthew Henson achieved that goal in 1909.)
Who owns the North Pole? The race is on to claim long-hidden treasures at the top of the world
The next year, another American, Robert Edwin Peary, made the same claim.
Treacherous travels: will two hardy adventurers survive a journey across the Arctic Ocean?

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