Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920
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Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920
Piri, Robert, 1856-1920
Peary, R. E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920
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(lcsh) Greenland--Discovery and exploration
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found: Nicaragua canal ... 1887.
found: His Moving on the North Pole, 1899:t.p. (Robert E. Peary)
found: UnM/Canadiana files(hdg.: Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920; usage: Robert E. Peary; R.E. Peary)
found: LC in OCLC, 12/6/83(hdg.: Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920; usage: Robert E. Peary)
found: 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)
found: 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.)
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