Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed they discovered ... departed from a camp just south of Annoatok on his own North Pole expedition eight months earlier, in August 1908.

The Northward blog is part of the Arctic Museum's celebration of the accomplishments of the many people who participated in and supported Robert E. Peary's 1908-09 North Pole expedition.

Robert hired native families to help with the expedition ... Marie Ahnighito Peary was born just a few degrees away from the North Pole. Her middle name honors the Inuit woman who sewed her ...

Curator Genevieve LeMoine and Director Susan Kaplan initiated the Cape Sheridan Archaeology Project to learn more about the Inughuit participants in Robert E ... again in 1908-09 Peary mounted major ...

One of history’s most driven Pole-seekers, Robert Peary, shocked the world when he announced that his wife Josephine would accompany him on his expedition to Greenland. The world responded ...

The club has numerous artifacts from Robert Peary's landmark expedition to the North Pole in 1909, including the sealskin mittens of Matthew Henson, Peary's first mate and the first African ...