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Peary Land

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noun

  1. a peninsula in N Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean: Cape Morris Jesup is at its N end. 200 miles (320 km) long.


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The researchers reconstructed ancient Peary Land using disembodied fragments of DNA.

From Scientific American • Dec. 7, 2022

The researchers extracted and sequenced DNA from 41 organic-rich sediment samples obtained from five sites on the Peary Land peninsula jutting into the Arctic Ocean.

From Reuters • Dec. 7, 2022

The samples came from a sediment deposit called the Kap København formation in Peary Land.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022

The DNA, found locked in sediments in a region called Peary Land at the farthest northern reaches of Greenland, shows what life was like in a much warmer period in Earth’s history.

From Scientific American • Dec. 7, 2022

Bahá’í literature in Greenlandic, previously disseminated as far as Thule, Etah, beyond the Arctic Circle, has been dispatched to radio station in Brondlundsfjord, Peary Land, eighty-second latitude, northernmost outpost of the globe.

From Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 by Shoghi Effendi