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Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Arctic explorer and writer, was the first non-native woman to explore the Arctic when she took part in Robert Peary’s 1891 expedition. Her daughter, born in 1893, was the first white baby born north of the Arctic Circle. Josephine summered on Eagle Island until her death in 1955.
Robert Edwin Peary, född 6 maj 1856 i Cresson, Pennsylvania, död 20 februari 1920 i Washington, D.C., var en amerikansk mariningenjör och som tidigare ansågs officiellt, dock omtvistat, ha varit den förste expeditionsledaren som nått Nordpolen till fots 1909. Polarforskaren Frederick Cook påstod att han redan 1908 hade besökt Nordpolen ...
Robert Peary. Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (6 tháng 5 năm 1856 - 20 tháng 2 năm 1920) là một nhà thám hiểm người Mỹ đã tuyên bố đã đến Bắc cực địa lý với chuyến thám hiểm của mình vào ngày 6 tháng 4 năm 1909. Lời tuyên bố của Peary đã được thừa nhận rộng rãi trong hầu hết thế ...
Mar 15, 2000 · In September 1897, the Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary sailed into New York harbor aboard the Hope with six Greenland Eskimos to be studied at the American Museum of Natural History at the request ...
Robert E. Peary was born May 6, 1856 in Cresson, Pennsylvania. He spent the formative years of his life in southern Maine with his mother, who raised him after his father's death. Peary graduated from Portland High School and then attended Bowdoin College (Class of 1877). While at Bowdoin, Peary participated in many activities, including rowing ...
Feb 28, 2014 · When Commander Robert Edwin Peary set out on the expedition his company included 24 men, 19 sledges, and 133 dogs. After months of travel across an immense field of ice from the edge of Cape ...
Jul 31, 2017 · Written by Ian Evans. Published on July 31, 2017. Read time Approx. 6 minutes. Inughuit women sewing, from the U.S. National Archives 401 XPS 7-1. Courtesy of The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College. In 1891, as explorer Robert Peary contemplated an expedition to the North Pole, he lived with the world’s northernmost people, a ...
