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Monument to Peary Sails From New York at Cape York
A ship from New York carries a monument to Admiral Robert E. Peary at Cape York Greenland 76 degrees north. The 60 foot steel beacon honors Peary the first to reach the North Pole and celebrated Arctic explorer with a history of polar expeditions, maps, and survival feats.
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New York
Effie M. Morrissey
Bob Bartlett
Cape York
Greenland
Arctic
North Pole
Robert E. Peary
United States
Navy
Peary
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin
Central America
Green“tunid
Elisha Kent Kane
Suca
Kane
Ith
States
Pole
Cape Sabine
Greely
Lady Franklin Bay
Fort Conger
Henson
Grant Land
Lane
Matt Henson
Bartlett
Navy League
Red Cross
Frederick
Cook
National Geographic Society