Robert Peary

Robert Edwin Peary , born the May 6th 1856 and dead the February 20th 1920, was an American explorer .

He is especially known to have led the forwarding which it first would have reached the North pole the April 6th 1909, in sledge to dogs, at the time of his eighth and last forwarding.

As of its return, it causes the polemic with Frederick Cook, which, also affirmed to him to have reached the north pole, but on April 21st, 1908. The controversy will be sliced by the congress of the United States, which officially makes of Peary the first winner of the north pole.

The modern analysis shows that, in fact, Peary does not have certainly not reached the pole, and that Cook does not have it probably not made either. Concerning Peary, speeds which it would have reached - whereas it was accompanied more only by its black servant, Matthew Henson and of four Inuit S (it had then returned all the other members of its forwarding) - like its plan of too rectilinear road for a forwarding which, according to Peary itself, did not make a precise point, seem too extraordinary. A second reading of its logbook in 1996 lets think that it had only approached it, as well as possible, that of about thirty kilometers, and explored the Arctic.

Civil engineer of the navy, Peary organized his life according to his ambition. As of 1886, it frequently remained with the Greenland to acclimatize and learn the Eskimo techniques adapted to displacements in the polar regions. In 1892, in spite of a leg broken by a return of bar, it sailed sufficiently in north to prove the insularity of Greenland. In 1905, it replaced the small yacht of its first forwardings, the Winward , by a ship especially designed for its explorations, the Theodore Roosevelt .

He reported his forwardings in several works: Northward over the Great Ice (1898), Nearest to the Pole (1907), The North Pole (1908) and Secret off Whodunnit Travel (1917).

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