U.S. Arctic explorer usually credited with leading the first expedition to reach the North Pole (1909).
Crocker Land was all but a phantom—one that famed explorer Robert E. Peary had invented out of the thin Arctic air.
The National Geographic Society turns 125th in January 2013, and this occasion marks a time to consider a bold new era of exploration.
Polar explorer Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and his chief aide Matthew A. Henson fathered sons by Inuit women on their travels in northern Greenland a century ago.
In his recent exhibition, Tavares Strachan positioned 'The Encyclopedia of Invisibility' like a nucleus around which all other installations revolved.
The American explorer Robert Peary claimed he had found a new continent in the Arctic, one he named Crocker Land.
Matthew Henson Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8,...
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Among those pictured is American Robert Edwin Peary, a former Navy commander turned explorer, who claimed to be first to the North Pole, though this has now been largely discredited.
