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Robert Edwin Peary, called "one of the greatest of all explorers," claimed to have been the first person to reach the North Pole on April 6, 1909.

Peary's publications include Northward Over the Great Ice (1998), Nearest the Pole (1907), The North Pole (1910) and Secrets of Polar Travel (1917). The North Pole has recently been reprinted by ...

Reaching the North Pole was a fantasy of the ancients. Finding the Northwest Passage was the goal of European explorers. Traversing the Arctic Ocean has become the reality of climate change ...

And there is controversy, of course, especially over the accounts of Frederick Cook and Robert Peary, who both claimed to have reached the North Pole at the start of the 20th century.

In 1909, Ross Marvin was helping Robert Peary on his North Pole expedition. Marvin supposedly fell through the ice and died. But his death was no accident.

Robert Peary was a driven, decorated explorer - an old-school imperialist who had been trying to reach the Pole for the United States for more than a decade. In the last weeks of the 1909 ...

Cook issued a press release saying, “Reached North Pole [on] April 21, 1908.” Robert Peary later issued his own release claiming to have reached the North Pole first, calling Cook “a liar ...

In The Margins is a series that covers the history they didn’t teach in school. In 1909, the North Pole was at the center of a heated controversy: Who had made it there first, Robert Peary or ...

Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to civilization that summer, having spent more than a year making his third attempt at reaching the North Pole.

Over three years Peary was able to extract a thirty-four-ton fragment and move it to New York, where it can be seen today at the American Museum of Natural History. Peary made two expeditions to reach ...