In 1909, a young American, Ross Marvin, was helping Robert Peary on his last North Pole expedition. Marvin did not survive. He supposedly fell through a crack in the sea ice and drowned.

In Nicaragua, Peary began to dream of being the one to discover the North Pole. All the while, Robert kept up his courtship with Josephine through six years of far-flung naval assignments ...

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 ...

In the late nineteenth century, there was only one Earthly frontier left to discover: the North Pole ... One of history’s most driven Pole-seekers, Robert Peary, shocked the world when he ...

On April 6, 1909, Matthew Henson stood atop the world with Robert Peary as co-discoverer of the North Pole. When Henson descended from the frigid north his reception was distinctly cool, even in ...

One team that was trying to get to the North Pole first was led by someone from America called Robert Peary. The story goes that Peary became ill on their journey and had to be pulled on a sled.