In a march of only a few hours, I had passed from the western to the eastern hemisphere and had verified my position at the summit of the world.
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| Birth: | 6th May, 1856 |
| Death: | 20th February, 1920 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Explorer |
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Robert Edwin Peary was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. Peary's claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, rather than the competing claim by Frederick Cook, who said he got there a year earlier. Both claims were widely debated in newspapers until 1913.
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