Robert Peary

Robert E. Peary was an explorer who lived between 1856 and 1920. He explored the North Pole after two failed attempts. He was also a native of Cresson, Pennsylvania and was born on May 6, 1856. Peary was educated at Bowdoin College, which is located in Brunswick, Maine, than served in the U.S. Navy as a civil engineer for several years in Nicaragua. Before Peary made it to the North Pole, he made a few other discoveries. Such …

…shallow as what scientists believed. Just a week before Peary’s return from his greatest discovery, an American explorer named Frederick A. Cook announced he had reached the pole in April 1908. This statement is the one that began questions from scientists if Peary had really discovered the North Pole. Robert Edwin Peary died on February 20, 1920 in Washington, D.C. This is also the state in which you can find a memorial made for him today.