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Portrait of American Arctic explorer Robert Edwin Peary wearing a double-breasted military uniform with decorative buttons and shoulder epaulets. Robert E. Peary dressed in polar expedition gear aboard his ship, the Roosevelt. Five members of Robert Peary's 1909 North Pole expedition stand on snow, raising their arms, with a mound of ice and a U.S. flag behind them. Portrait of Robert Edwin Peary in a decorated military uniform with shoulder epaulettes and a prominent mustache.
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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. May 02, 2026
Anniversary information added. Feb 16, 2026
First paragraph modernization. Apr 01, 2024
Add new Web site: American Polar Society - Admiral Robert E. Peary. Jun 14, 2022
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Henson and Peary. Feb 20, 2017
Changed article title from Robert Edwin Peary to Robert Peary. Nov 14, 2016
Noted which people accompanied Peary in his 1886 Greenland expedition; added details about Peary's hiring of Matthew Henson in 1887. Feb 25, 2015
Add new Web site: America's Story from America's Library - Robert E. Peary. Apr 23, 2014
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Robert Peary. Apr 23, 2014
Add new Web site: Naval History and Heritage Command - Biography of Robert Edwin Peary. Jun 14, 2013
Added photograph. Jun 13, 2011
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Robert E Peary. Nov 12, 2008
Media added. Mar 26, 2008
Added new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Robert Peary. Mar 18, 2008
Added new Web site: Netstate.com - Biography of Robert Edwin Peary. Mar 18, 2008
Added new Web site: Public Broadcating Service - Biography of Robert Peary. Mar 18, 2008
Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Biography of Robert Edwin Peary. Mar 18, 2008
Added new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson. Mar 18, 2008
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Robert Edwin Peary. Mar 18, 2008
Added new Web site: United States History - Biography of Robert Edwin Peary. Mar 18, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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