2011/12/14

Peary Relief Expedition of 1892




Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–1892

The Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891-1892 was where Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. set out to determine if Greenland was an island, or was a peninsula of the North Pole.

History

Peary sailed from Brooklyn, New York on June 6, 1891 aboard the . Aboard was Josephine Diebitsch Peary, making her the first female on an arctic expedition.

An expedition to find Peary was organized by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1892.

Crew

His crew consisted of the following:

References


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