Background
PEARY, Robert Edwin was born in Cresson Springs, Pennsylvania, United States. Only child of Charles N. Peary and Mary Wiley Peary.
PEARY, Robert Edwin was born in Cresson Springs, Pennsylvania, United States. Only child of Charles N. Peary and Mary Wiley Peary.
Studied at Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine, United States A. (class of ’77).
Entered United States Navy, 1881. Assist, engineer Government Surveys Nicaragua Ship Canal, 1885-1886. Reconnaissance Greenland Inland Ice, 1886.
Sub-chief engineer Nicaragua Canal Company, 1887.
Superintending engineer United States Naval Dry Dock, League I., 188S- 91. First expedition to North Greenland.
Determination of insularity of Greenland, 1891-1892. Second expedition to North Greenland, 1893-1895.
Arctic summer voyages, 1896, 1897.
Discovery and securing of the Cape York meteorites, the largest known meteorites in the world. Third Arctic expedition for discovery of the North Pole, 189S-1902. Rounded northern end of Greenland, the most northerly known land in the world, and reached 84° 17" North. latitude, the highest latitude up to that time attained in the Western 1583 Hemisphere.
Reached North Pole, 1910.
Gold Medallist of the Royal, Royal Scottish, Paris, American, and Philadelphia Geographical. Societies
President 8th International Geographical.
Congress. M. American Society Civil Engineers.
Honourable and Corporation Member various Geographical. Societies; Civil Engineer, United States Navy, with rank of Commander. President American Geographical. Society.
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