An old cartoon image showing Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (1856-1920) who was controversially credited with being the first explorer to reach the North Pole. Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) claimed to have reached the pole before him, hence the notice in the cartoon, signed F A C)

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
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