Peary, Robert E. 1856-1920
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Name (Hebrew)
פירי, רוברט, 1856-1920
Name (Latin)
Peary, Robert E. 1856-1920
Name (Arabic)
بيري، روبرت، 1856-1920
Other forms of name
nna Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920
Piri, Robert, 1856-1920
Peary, R. E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920
Peary, Robert E., 1856-1920
Date of birth
1856
Date of death
1920
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration
Greenland--Discovery and exploration
Occupation
Admirals
Civil engineers
Explorers
Photographers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Union list of artist names online, July 3, 2018(Peary, Robert Edwin (American photographer and explorer, 1856-1920). From the 1880s to 1910s, Peary led eight expeditions to the Arctic Regions, claiming to be the first explorer to reach the North Pole on 6 April 1909. In 1898, Peary published Northward over the Great Ice' which narrated his explorations in northern Greenland in 1886 and 1891 to 1897. The book was illustrated with his own photographs made with two specially constructed Kodak cameras.)
- Wikipedia, July 3, 2018(Robert Peary; Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (May 6, 1856-February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909; born in Cresson, Pennsylvania, but raised in Portland, Maine; died Washington, D.C.; civil engineering degree from Bowdoin College)
- Nicaragua canal ... 1887.
- His Moving on the North Pole, 1899:t.p. (Robert E. Peary)
- UnM/Canadiana files(hdg.: Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920; usage: Robert E. Peary; R.E. Peary)
- LC in OCLC, 12/6/83(hdg.: Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920; usage: Robert E. Peary)