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Robert Edwin Peary
was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person to reach the North Pole on April 6, 1909, a claim that earned him great honor and prestige, but later heattracted much criticism and controversy, and today is widely commissioning doubt.

For his final expedition to the North Pole broke July 6, 1908 in New York City, along with 23 men, and wintered near CapeSheridan on Ellesmere Island. From there they left the North Pole on March 1, 1909.
In the final leg of the expedition, only five of his men were with him: Matthew Henson, Oatah, Egingwah, Seeglooand Ookeah. In his travel diary, on April 7 wrote (although his notes were later re-written for publication) "Finally the Pole! Prize of three centuries, my dream and ambition for 23 years. Mine atlast... "
Peary made several expeditions to the Arctic, exploring Greenland by dog ​​sled in 1886 and 1891, and returning to the island three times in the 1890s. Twice attempted to cross northwestGreenland over the ice, discovering the reef of the Navy (Navy Cliff)
Unlike most previous explorers, Peary studied long survival techniques of the Eskimos, the Inuit people who learned to drive the sleddog, to hunt and fish in extreme conditions, to build igloos and wear skins, as the natives did much to preserve the heat to eliminate the extra weight of tents and sleeping bags on long marches.For his final assault on the pole, he and 23 men in New York embarked aboard the Roosevelt under the command of Captain Robert Bartlett on July 6, 1908. Wintered near Cape Sheridan on Ellesmere Islandand from Ellesmere departed for the pole on February 28-March 1, 1909. The last team support came from "Bartlett Camp" on April 1, 1909, from a latitude not exceeding 87 ° 45'N. (The figure givenusually 87 ° 47'N, is based on the fault light Bartlett calculation of the distance of a line from Sumner Sumner Thomas Hubbard Pole). In the last stage of the journey to the North Pole only five of...