Robert E Peary
American
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
Architect | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Historic District | Philadelphia, PA | |||||
1877/00/00 | Peary graduates second in a class of 54 students (Phi Beta Kappa) from Bowdoin College. Peary attended on the Brown Memorial Scholarship and majored in Civil Engineering, 1873 to 1877 | Education | Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College | Brunswick | |||
1904/00/00 | Admiral Peary modernizes and expands his Eagle Island summer home, 1904-1910 | Home | Eagle Island | Harpswell | |||
1908/09/05 | Robert Peary and his 6 teams of explorers (24 men, 19 sledges and 133 dogs) arrive at Cape Sheridan, Ellesmere Island. They spend the winter gathering supplies of meat that included muskox, deer and rabbit. | Explorer | Nunavut | Canada | Expedition to the North Pole | ||
1909/04/06 | The exhibition's Polar team (Matthew Henson, Robert Peary, Eskimos and 40 dogs) become the first people to reach the North Pole or maybe not, at least they thought it was the North Pole. | Explorer | Arctic Ocean | Expedition to the North Pole |
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