Awards & Winners

Robert Peary

Date of Birth 06-May-1856
Place of Birth Cresson
(Cambria County, Pennsylvania)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Adm. Robert E. Peary, Robert E. Peary, Robert Edwin Peary
Profession Explorer
Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. Peary's claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, rather than the competing claim by Frederick Cook, who said he got there a year earlier. Both claims were widely debated in newspapers until 1913. Modern historians generally think Cook did not reach the pole. Based on an evaluation of Peary's records by Wally Herbert, also a polar explorer, he concluded in a 1989 book that Peary did not reach the pole, although he may have been as close as 5 miles. His conclusions have been widely accepted. The first undisputed explorers to walk on the North Pole ice were documented in 1969 during a British expedition led by British explorer Wally Herbert.

Awards by Robert Peary

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1898


Patron's Gold Medal
(For explorations in Northern Greenland, and especially for discovering the northern termination of the Greenland ice)