Robert E. Peary
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Robert E. Peary
Cresson, Pennsylvania |
-photos taken September 2006, TMC.
This monument was placed in honor of the
Artic explorer, discoverer of the North Pole April 6. 1909. Peary was born
in Cresson, May 6, 1856, the family moving to Maine in 1859.
Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission.
Text of plaque on statue:
Robert Edwin Peary
Discoverer of the North Pole
Born 100 yards south of this point May 6, 1856
Died
February 20, 1920
and buried in
Arlington
Cemetery
.
Graduated from
Bowdoin
College
1877.
Entered the
U.S.
Navy 1881.
Engineer in charge of
Nicaragua
Canal
survey 1887.
First crossing of Greenland Ice Cap 1892.
Discovery of Northern Coasts proved insularity of
Greenland
1900.
Attained new farthest north for
Western Hemisphere
in latitude 34’17, 1902.
Explored coast of
Grantland
attaining the furthest north in latitude of 37’6’, 1906.
Discovered North Pole,
April 6, 1909
.
Retired from
U.S.
Navy as Rear Admiral 1911.
- page last updated September 2006, TMC.
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