Robert Peary
Explorer from the United States (1856–1920)
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Arctic explorer who claimed the North Pole in 1909—a discovery that stuck in history books for decades, even though modern scrutiny suggests he probably never actually got there.
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Robert Edwin Peary was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being the discoverer of the geographic North Pole in April 1909, having led the first expedition to have claimed this achievement, although it is now considered unlikely that he actually reached the Pole.
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