| LC control no. | n 50049394 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 |
| Variant(s) | Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920 Piri, Robert, 1856-1920 Peary, R. E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 |
| Other standard no. | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Robert_Peary Q186585 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q186585 34499743 http://viaf.org/viaf/34499743 16828 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/16828 http://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/thes/p069015317 500036635 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500036635 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10582237 2000770 62710 mp140581 0049612 799 388311 317/000086059 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Portland (Me.) |
| Birth date | 1856-05-06 |
| Death date | 1920-02-20 |
| Place of birth | Cresson (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Field of activity | Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration Greenland--Discovery and exploration |
| Profession or occupation | Explorers Civil engineers Admirals Photographers |
| Found in | Nicaragua canal ... 1887. His Moving on the North Pole, 1899: t.p. (Robert E. Peary) UnM/Canadiana files (hdg.: Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920; usage: Robert E. Peary; R.E. Peary) LC in OCLC, 12/6/83 (hdg.: Peary, Robert Edwin, 1856-1920; usage: Robert E. Peary) Wikipedia, July 3, 2018 (Robert Peary; Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (May 6, 1856-February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909; born in Cresson, Pennsylvania, but raised in Portland, Maine; died Washington, D.C.; civil engineering degree from Bowdoin College) Union list of artist names online, July 3, 2018 (Peary, Robert Edwin (American photographer and explorer, 1856-1920). From the 1880s to 1910s, Peary led eight expeditions to the Arctic Regions, claiming to be the first explorer to reach the North Pole on 6 April 1909. In 1898, Peary published Northward over the Great Ice' which narrated his explorations in northern Greenland in 1886 and 1891 to 1897. The book was illustrated with his own photographs made with two specially constructed Kodak cameras.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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