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Robert Edwin Peary. Robert E. Peary dressed in polar expedition gear aboard his ship, the Roosevelt. North Pole expedition Robert Edwin Peary
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Robert Peary: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. May 02, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 01, 2024
Anniversary information added. Feb 16, 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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