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Location of Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Mount Peary (65°15′S 63°52′W / 65.250°S 63.867°W / -65.250; -63.867) is a conspicuous massif, 1,900 m, with a flat, snow-covered summit several miles in extent, surmounted by a marginal peak on the west, standing 7 nautical miles (13 km) east-northeast of Cape Tuxen and dominating the area between Wiggins and Bussey Glaciers on Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Charcot and named by him for R. Admiral Robert E. Peary, U.S. Navy, American Arctic explorer and first to attain the North Pole, in 1909.

In 1976, three men in an expedition died while climbing the mountain.

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Mount Peary

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Mount Peary (65°15′S 63°52′W / 65.250°S 63.867°W / -65.250; -63.867) is a conspicuous massif, 1,900 m, with a flat, snow-covered summit several miles...

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Robert Peary

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Peary and Henson; Peary Land, Peary Glacier, Peary Nunatak and Cape Peary in Greenland, Peary Bay and Peary Channel in Canada, as well as Mount Peary...

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Camp Peary

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Camp Peary is an approximately 9,000 acre U.S. military reservation in York County near Williamsburg, Virginia. Officially referred to as an Armed Forces...

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Peary

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Peary may refer to: Danny Peary (born 1949), American film critic and sports writer Gerald Peary (born 1944), American film critic Harold Peary (1908–1985)...

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Mount Touring Club

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snow-capped peak near the extremity of a spur that descends southwestward from Mount Peary, on the west side of Graham Land. Discovered and named "Sommet du Touring...

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List of mountains in the Canadian Rockies

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Mount Balch

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mountain with numerous sharp peaks, the highest 1,105 m, between Mount Peary and Mount Mill on Kyiv Peninsula, west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered...

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Matthew Henson

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March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent...

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Denali

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Denali (/dəˈnɑːli/; also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of...

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North Pole

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Amundsen. Three prior expeditions – led by Frederick Cook (1908, land), Robert Peary (1909, land) and Richard E. Byrd (1926, aerial) – were once also accepted...

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Frederick Cook

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Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a year later by Robert Peary, though both men's accounts have since been fiercely disputed; in December...

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Peary Arctic Club

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The Peary Arctic Club was an American-based club with the goal of promoting the Arctic expeditions of Robert Peary (1856–1920). This association of influential...

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Minik Wallace

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Greenland to New York City with his father and others by the explorer Robert Peary. The six Inuit were studied by staff of the American Museum of Natural History...

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Mount Wistar

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Mount Wistar (Danish: Wistars Fjeld or Wistar Bjerg) is a mountain in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland...

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Bussey Glacier

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65.267°S 64.017°W / -65.267; -64.017) is a glacier flowing west from Mount Peary to the head of Waddington Bay on Kyiv Peninsula on the west coast of...

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Peter Freuchen

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Freuchen, Inukitsork, and Uvdloriark) aimed to test Robert Peary's claim that a channel divided Peary Land from Greenland. They proved this was not the case...

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Lillie Range

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Mount Koob, Tantalus Bluffs and Mount Ferguson. Further inland are Mount Skinner, Mount Krebs, Mount Dryfoose, Allaire Peak, Mount Daniel and Mount Hall...

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Radhanath Sikdar

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edited by Ramgopal Ghosh. In 1854, Sikdar along with his Derozian friend Peary Chand Mitra started the Bengali journal Masik Patrika, for education and...

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Cape York meteorite

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meteoritic iron for tools. The first foreigner to reach the meteorite was Robert Peary in 1894, with the assistance of Inuit guides. Large pieces are on display...

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Mount Clarence Wyckoff

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Mount Clarence Wyckoff (Danish: Clarence Wyckoff Fjeld or Clarence Wyckoff Bjerg) is a mountain in Peary Land, Northern Greenland. Administratively the...

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Pemmican

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E. Byrd, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott, George W. DeLong, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and Roald Amundsen. Pemmican has traditionally been made...

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Wally Herbert

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recognized for walking to the North Pole, on the 60th anniversary of Robert Peary's disputed expedition. He was described by Sir Ranulph Fiennes as "the greatest...

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Tom Avery

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recreated Robert Peary and Matthew Henson's 1909 controversial expedition to the North Pole. His goal of the expedition was to assess whether Peary had achieved...

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Caribou herds and populations in Canada

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named species and subspecies (see Caribou Subspecies below). They are: Peary DU1, Dolphin and Union DU2, Barren-Ground DU3, Eastern Migratory DU4, Newfoundland...

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List of My Three Sons episodes

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Hargraves. John Hubbard as Ed. John Gallaudet as George Cleveland. Harold Peary as Otis Finch. Meredith MacRae as Sally Ann Morrison. 170 22 "Lady in the...

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List of northernmost settlements

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Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Eigil Knuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland (= Man & Society. Vol....

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