portrait of Robert Peary polar explore. Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (/ 1856 – 1920) He was an American explorer and United States Naval officer , famous fore several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He claimed to be the first person to have reached the geographic North Pole. He was a n 1896, Peary, a Master Mason, receiving his degrees in the No. 454, New York City Kane Lodge. The s s Roosevelt seen in the background was designed and constructed specifically for his polar exploration expeditions. i

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