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* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
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Avery writes on his web site that " The admiration and respect which I hold for Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and the four Inuit men who ventured North in 1909, has grown enormously since we set out from Cape Columbia.
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New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
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The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908 ; Robert Peary in 1909 ; and Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.
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Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. ( May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920 ) was an American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole.
Robert Peary and Captain Robert Bartlett, standing on ship, Battle Harbour, Labrador in 1909
New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
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