Robert Peary
Noun
Meaning
United States Arctic explorer and United States naval officer who has been regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1856-1920)
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Examples
Before then, the two most significant penetrations of the Greenland interior had been those of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1883, and Robert Peary in 1886.
The First Thule Expedition (1912, Rasmussen and Freuchen) aimed to test Robert Peary 's claim that a channel divided Peary Land from Greenland.