Peary Polar Expedition Medal information

The Peary Polar Expedition Medal was a commemorative medal awarded to six of the participants of the 1908–1909 Expedition to the North Pole, led by Robert...

highest level of membership. In 1944, Henson was awarded the Peary Polar Expedition Medal, and he was received at the White House by Presidents Harry Truman...

Edwin Peary Sr. (/ˈpɪəri/; May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to...

Chinese ownership in 1960, and reported as scrapped in 1987. The Peary Polar Expedition Medal, authorized by the United States Congress in 1944, was awarded...

awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces include various medals, service ribbons, ribbon devices, and specific badges which recognize military...

pipe band. Peary Polar Expedition Medal Naval Reserve Medal American Defense Service Medal American Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal "Donald Baxter...

that promoted the Arctic expeditions of Robert Peary Peary caribou, a caribou subspecies in Canada Peary Polar Expedition Medal, authorized by the United...

Antarctic Expedition Medal is a Congressional medal established by an Act of Congress in 1930 to commemorate the Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928–1930...

Antarctic Expedition Medal". Byrd Polar Research Center. The Ohio State University. Retrieved 15 February 2013. "Medal, Byrd 1933-1935 Antarctic Expedition Medal"...

The Sampson Medal was a U.S. Navy campaign medal. The medal was authorized by an Act of Congress in 1901. The medal was awarded to those personnel who...

as a polar explorer as first mate on Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899. From 1903 to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully...

(23 December 1880 – 1 May 1971) was a Danish polar explorer and writer. He is most known for his expeditions to Greenland. Mikkelsen was born on 23 December...

Robert Peary's disputed expedition. He was described by Sir Ranulph Fiennes as "the greatest polar explorer of our time". During the course of his polar career...

The Third Thule Expedition (1919) was depot-laying for Roald Amundsen's polar drift in the ship Maud. The Fourth Thule Expedition (1919–1920) was in...

November 1958), commonly referred to as Captain Wilkins, was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer. He...

expedition leader Roald Amundsen. Three prior expeditions – led by Frederick Cook (1908, land), Robert Peary (1909, land) and Richard E. Byrd (1926, aerial)...

his expeditions have raised £16 million for good causes. In 1986, Fiennes was awarded the Polar Medal for "outstanding service to British Polar exploration...

PMC 1279489. PMID 11872772. Horowitz, B.Z. (2003). "Polar poisons: Did Botulism doom the Franklin expedition?". Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology....

the Nestor ("elder statesman") of Danish polar explorers. His archaeological investigations were made in Peary Land and adjacent areas of High Arctic Greenland...

86°14′ during his Fram expedition of 1893–1896. Although he retired from exploration after his return to Norway, his techniques of polar travel and his innovations...

Edward VII Land, and the Polar Plateau (via the western mountains route) on which the South Pole is located. The expedition tried to reach the South Pole...

My Arctic Journal (1893) during the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892. Josephine first met Robert Peary in 1885 while she was attending dancing...

contribution to the First International Polar Year. It was later occupied by Robert Peary during some of his Arctic expeditions. Fort Conger is located on the...