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Peary

American  
[peer-ee] / ˈpɪər i /

noun

  1. Robert Edwin, 1856–1920, U.S. admiral and Arctic explorer.


Peary British  
/ ˈpɪərɪ /

noun

  1. Robert Edwin. 1856–1920, US arctic explorer, generally regarded as the first man to reach the North Pole (1909)

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This is perhaps why Aleqatsiaq Peary, a 42-year-old Inuit hunter living in the remote northerly town of Qaanaaq, seemed unfazed by the prospect of US ownership.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

Gibbs taught at Peary High School from the year it opened — 1960 — through its final semester in 1984.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2022

The newly analyzed ancient DNA comes from a fossil-rich rock formation in Peary Land called Kap København, which preserves sediments from both land and a shallow ocean-side estuary.

From Scientific American • Dec. 7, 2022

Despite the best efforts of Captain Bartlett, whom the legendary polar explorer Robert Peary called “the world’s greatest living ice navigator,” the Karluk could not escape.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2022

Dressed in a tailcoat and white bow tie, he ate heartily and spoke at length with Robert Peary, the Arctic explorer who was credited with being the first to reach the North Pole.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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