Peary
Americannoun
noun
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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
Peary High Class of 1973 — June 9 and 10.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023
The researchers began collecting sediments from Peary Land in 2006, but it took years for the technology to catch up with their ambitions.
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
I felt as Peary must have when he approached what he thought was the North Pole.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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