As this is written, the world is speculating whether Roald Amundsen’s two polar airplanes have been successful in their dash ...

A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...

A Peary Caribou recovery strategy was released April 29. It details the challenges facing the far-Northern subspecies, whose ...

Robert Edwin Peary, called "one of the greatest of all explorers," claimed to have been the first person to reach the North Pole on April 6, 1909. But from the moment his achievement was announced ...

There are also numerous books about whether Peary made it to the North Pole. Two of the best known are The Noose of Laurels: Robert E. Peary and the Race for the North Pole by Wally Herbert (Atheneum, ...

The Olympics had last been staged 1,500 years earlier. In 1909, explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reached the North Pole. It would be November of the same year before the National ...

Reaching the North Pole was a fantasy of the ancients ... William Parry, John Franklin, Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Vitus Bering, James Cook. “They were, after all, children of their time ...

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 ...

In 1909, word was received that U.S. Navy Adm. Robert Peary had reached the North Pole five months earlier, on April 6, 1909. In 1914, World War I's first Battle of the Marne took place outside ...

For the last few months, I have been reading and analysing the journals of the explorers Robert Peary ... when Peary supposedly became the first man to reach the North Pole. Henson, who was ...

Arctic explorers Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both returned from North Pole expeditions in 1909 - and both made separate claims that they had been the first to reach the world's most northern ...